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Originally Posted by JTraik
I was hoping for a diagram.
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Me too, that would have been interesting. I believe that unlike many of the smaller volcanoes today, supervolcanoes have a more direct ancient access to the earth's mantel than most volcanoes now. Most people may thing that a volcano has a straight verticle pipe directly down to the mantel and it's mostly not true, Underneath there are many fractures and chambers, some magma moving horizontally then moving upwards again.
There is some research going on to study this hypothesis of many of these supervolcanic caldera and the still present thermal hot springs like those of
Yellowstone and
Pagosa Springs Colorado as still having a direct connection to the mantel even today. It is interesting and I think it also relates to the information which another poster brought to our attention about a month ago regarding all the water that appaently exists below the earth's crust inside the mantal itself. I think many of those supervolcano explosions were mostly a
Hydrothermal explosion of water followed by
molten lava which would have later plugged them up. Here's the link:
GIS Tech May Reveal Water Below Tectonic Plates | GPS World (http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/natural-resources/news/gis-tech-may-reveal-water-below-tectonic-plates-8765 - broken link)
nsf.gov - Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) News - Scientists Create First Three-dimensional Global Map of Electrical Conductivity in Earth's Mantle - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
I'm interested in the study of Earth's ancient hydrological system which I believe was more of a minerotrophic one as evidenced by isotope studies and experiments on the effects on plants with such a water quality.
I'd elaborate, but a month ago I posted a link here and explained something I found exciting, but then sometime later the university who did the research and the researcher who published the material deleted it from off their website. Upon investigating why, I found out that some coward or cowards from this forum felt their worldview and philosophy was being threaten and contacted the university about my speculation. Hence it was taken off the webpages. They refused to tell me who it was, but it's of no consequence anyway since I had already archived everything. Hence I have'nt found any reason since to post anything new under the subject
"Informational Water". I've got more than enough on my plate anyway. This venue is only pure entertainment at times anyway.
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