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A team of scientists plans to drill into the Earth’s mantle by the early 2020s. The pioneering mission is for scientific purposes, but it’s vaguely reminiscent of a plan hatched by Dr. Evil, Austin Powers’ buffoonish nemesis, to drill into the earth’s core, detonate a nuclear device, and trigger worldwide volcanic eruptions. Is there any chance that drilling deep into the Earth could cause a volcanic eruption?
A volcano is just magma from the Mantle pushing it's way up through a hole in the crust. That's not a scientific exploration I would like to be working around... though I doubt it would create a very big volcano at worst.
I think it is possible if they drilled in the weakest spot and used enough explosives to make the hole wide enough. When you look at active volcanoes (not violently erupting ones, but those that are just "letting off steam"), the openings in the ground don't appear to be very large.
A team of scientists plans to drill into the Earth’s mantle by the early 2020s. The pioneering mission is for scientific purposes, but it’s vaguely reminiscent of a plan hatched by Dr. Evil, Austin Powers’ buffoonish nemesis, to drill into the earth’s core, detonate a nuclear device, and trigger worldwide volcanic eruptions. Is there any chance that drilling deep into the Earth could cause a volcanic eruption?
A volcano is just magma from the Mantle pushing it's way up through a hole in the crust. That's not a scientific exploration I would like to be working around... though I doubt it would create a very big volcano at worst.
Drilling is dangerous, hard work, so I can understand not wanting to work around it. You have nothing to worry about from the mantle, though. Molten rock will not make it far enough through a hole that small before it freezes solid to reach the surface.
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