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He literally just said that's not how volcanos work

• frozenport 3y ago
  Lol, thats a quote from the article.
  • andrewflnr 3y ago
    I, for one, am pretty sure the article is wrong there. What I've heard from geologists is that Yellowstone's magma chambers simply are not molten enough to erupt.
    • fooker 3y ago
      https://abcnews.go.com/US/yellowstone-supervolcano-lot-magma-previously-thought-scientists/story?id=94091938 https://abcnews.go.com/US/yellowstone-supervolcano-lot-magma...
      • andrewflnr 3y ago
        Right, "up to 20%", whereas the threshold for "barely eruptible" is in the 50% range, according to this article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617105113 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617105113 Unless the rules are way different for supereruptions, which I guess we have to consider, but probably not 30% different.