Chapter 854: The Terrifying Magma Sac
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Tang Feng's gaze never left an area on that map. The Great Tamu Volcano is really suitable, and if it is done well, it is a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the person himself, which can always make the government fearful.
Tang Feng is not without other ways, after all, not far from the mainland is the convergence boundary between the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate, which is one of the most unstable geological conditions in the world.
With the current capabilities of the star core, it can definitely act as this fuse. Because the expansion rate of the Pacific plate in the northwest far exceeds the expansion rate in other directions, the huge Kula plate, under the strong expansion of the Pacific plate, was pushed by the Pacific plate and buried under the Asian continent in just over 100 million years, completely disappearing.
Today, the Pacific Ocean is still expanding northwest at more than twice as fast and powerful as in other directions, and unfortunately it is on the edge of a strong Pacific plate and a solid Eurasian plate.
Of course, Tang Feng didn't like it anymore, and he wouldn't be so frustrated to play Lu Shen for Yueben, after all, there were nearly 130 million people living on those islands. That's a living person, a human being like Tang Feng, not 130 million ants, and Tang Feng is not Adolf a few decades ago
The most important thing is that if the convergence boundary of the two plates is really moved, there is also a great possibility that it will affect the mainland of China. The violent collision of the two plates is not a joke, and the consequences are not something that the current star core can control, and the coast of China is not very far away from the mainland. Plate collisions of this magnitude. Although it can cause a geological disaster, it will also cause huge losses to China's rich coastal areas.
And the Great Tamu Volcano is different, the terrifying earth killer is far away from the mainland of China, even if it is a little moved, even if it triggers a tsunami, but between the Great Tamu Volcano and the coast of China, there are four islands on the mainland as a buffer.
I just don't know if this big guy who has been sentenced to death by human scientists still has the ability to move again!
In fact, Tang Feng chose the Great Tamu Volcano. It's also a bit of a bad taste, after all, a super giant volcano that has been sentenced to death suddenly activated, and Tang Feng also wants to see how the world will react to the recovery of this big guy
Tang Feng took his eyes off the map, no matter how detailed the map was, where was the accuracy of the direct survey of the star core?
Tang Feng quietly turned on the deformation survey function of the star core, and the next moment, a part of the Great Tamu Volcano, which was more than 5,500 kilometers away, appeared in the survey area of the star core. Tang Feng wanted to survey the entire Great Tamu Volcano at once, but with the current level of the star core, this was obviously unlikely.
The widest part of the Great Tamu volcano is more than 650 kilometers. If Fiji is closer, the star core can be surveyed, but at this distance, the star core is at most more than 200 kilometers wide.
However, even at this width, Tang Feng was taken aback when he saw the situation at the bottom of the Great Tamu Volcano.
As scientists have judged, the magma channel beneath that huge crater on the Grand Tamu volcano has been thoroughly petrazified. Needless to say, the reason for this must have been the last eruption of the Great Tamu volcano. Because of the inability to follow, the pressure of the sea above and the pressure of the magma below formed a wonderful balance, and as a result, a large amount of magma could not erupt from the crater, and could only stay in the magma channel to slowly cool, and finally completely blocked the thick magma channel.
However, this situation was also expected by Tang Feng, and it was nothing else that scared Tang Feng. Rather, it is the case at the bottom of the Great Tamu volcano.
What determines the strength of a volcanic eruption is nothing else, but the amount of magma that lies beneath the volcano. And how are volcanoes formed? Quite simply, it's the magma that's what it is.
In fact, there were no volcanoes on Earth, but in the interior of the Earth. To be exact, the upper mantle layer, at a depth of 100 to 150 kilometers from the surface, contains a large amount of molten material (magma), which accounts for about 20% of the entire upper mantle volume, or about 35 million cubic kilometers.
A large amount of radioactive material present in the interior of the earth, decays in its natural state, producing a large amount of heat. This heat cannot be dissipated to the ground, and the temperature continues to rise until the rock melts, forming a state of hot melting in the Earth's interior. Once this molten material breaks through the fragile crust and then breaks out of the surface, this is a volcanic eruption.
This molten material is ejected from the surface, then cooled and accumulated, forming the current volcano. So, unlike other mountain ranges, volcanoes are formed by the accumulation of cooled magma.
Therefore, the power of a volcano depends on the size of the magma sac beneath it.
Like the famous Yellowstone supervolcano, there is a magma sac with a diameter of 70 kilometers and a thickness of about 10 kilometers, and once this magma capsule erupts, it can eject up to 1,000 cubic kilometers of material at a time, including 700 cubic miles of magma.
In fact, the Yellowstone volcano erupted more than 16 million years ago, and has erupted hundreds of times so far, eventually forming this supervolcano covering an area of almost 8,000 square kilometers and a total volume of almost 30,000 cubic kilometers.
And what is the volume of the Great Tamu Volcano? Seven million cubic kilometers! Equivalent to a lava sphere with a radius of 120 km. Taking into account the partial melting rate of about 20% of the mantle material, if the 35 million cubic kilometers of mantle-derived material in the mantle also form a volcanic eruption, then a mantle "fireball" with a radius of 200 kilometers will be created.
That is, the molten material that participated in the "making" of the Great Tamu volcano occupies almost a fifth of the molten material in the mantle!
It can be seen what a scenery and how powerful this Great Tamu Volcano was back then!
Just now, Tang Feng thought that this big guy had consumed too much of its physical strength in the early violent eruption, causing it to run out of goods in its stomach, but the fact was that PIA~PIA~PIA immediately slapped itself a few big times. Although this big guy has been "dead" for more than 100 million years, in its lower part, under the survey of the star core, Tang Feng still saw a shocking scene.
Underneath this big thing, there is a huge magma sac, this magma sac is almost half the size of the Great Tamu volcano, both in diameter and thickness, far from the magma sac under the Yellowstone volcano can be compared. If you had to compare, it would be to put a glass ball that we played as children next to a basketball
This is no goods in the stomach, and all the sisters in it are well-known dry goods!
It's just that this huge magma sac is calmer, not like the one beneath the Yellowstone volcano. But the amount of magma contained in this magma sac is so staggering that if it is exposed a little, it will be an earth-shattering thing
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