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To: LaFayette555 who wrote (17107)3/29/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: Gord Bolton  Respond to of 26850
 
Here is a picture of a K pipe Francois.
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The pressure and heat under the mantle is very high. Any area of weakness in the mantle or crust will be filed in from below by magma to whatever height it can penetrate. As it penetrates it will both melt some of the surrounding rock and be cooled itself in the process. As it penetrates higher and higher it will be cooled more and more and the pressure difference will decrease causing it to loose its desire so to speak. If it can make a clear break to surface and if it still has heat and pressure behind it it will explode into the atmosphere but obviously this does not happen everyday or in every case.

The shifting of the plates, shocks to the earth such as a collision with a large asteroid, or perhaps a huge five mile deep ice age glacier will put stress on the mantle and create fractures or small areas of weakness which allow the magma to make a rush for surface. All attempts are not successful. Thus there may be many more blind pipes at varying depths all over the world.




To: LaFayette555 who wrote (17107)3/29/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: russet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 26850
 
Unless the barrel is plugged by dirt or rock, then it can blow out through the sides of the barrel in lots of different directions, the results of which have been found throughout the world in blows, dykes, sills and weird emplacements of all types, Snap being one of those. If you don't like the word feeder pipe, let's call it the "huge feeder system blow thingy" that hopefully is full of lots of diamonds, just like the "dyke, sill cone sheet thingy" that is under the lake.

In any event, Winspear is about to poke some holes down there, to look for the feeder, and we will know something about it's diamond composition in a month or so when the caustic dissolution results come back. Winspear said they will release these results as they get them,...in their last NR.

russett, the hypester(according to Lilian D)



To: LaFayette555 who wrote (17107)3/29/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: .Trev  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 26850
 
Question

How does the magma get close enough to surface to hit the water table?

Question

If the pressure driving the magma upwards gets relieved by one of Walt's escapees horizontally before hitting the water table does the whole thing just back off and return downwards to the origin????