25-10-2009, 08:07 PM
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ze frogginator
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 22,080
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Quote:
Originally Posted by renormalised
Water and magma don't mix...you'd have 4 degree water flowing onto 1200 degree molten rock, and the moment it hit the magma it would flash vapourise, build up pressure in the magma chamber and then pop like a cork. The water pressure would hardly affect the magma....especially in a chamber the size of the one at Yellowstone. It would probably make it worse, in fact, so far as the explosion is concerned. But once it went off, it'd be the equivalent of several hundred thousand megatons of explosive potential.
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Nasty! 
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