05-17-2017, 08:43 AM
I am suggesting you might benefit from taking a geology class.
Thank you, it's always a good suggestion, and certainly important for each of us to further our education and broaden our horizons. I've completed a geology class, but who knows, perhaps I'll brush up on the subject again in the future.
Other people following our discussion may not have studied geology or have the time to take a class however, and they might appreciate a quick reply from you to my question (rather than find the answer which I believe you implied I could discover for myself in a beneficial, one or two semester geology class):
Just as you have suggested the possibility of a Mauna Kea and Kohala eruption outside of historical evidence which suited your contention, I suggested a Mauna Loa eruption time frame slightly outside of historical evidence to indicate the rapid speed at which the lava can move.
Are we only discussing lava flows in the historical record, which would preclude your comments on Mauna Kea and Kohala, or does the discussion include geologic time which might allow for the possibility of a 6 day lava flow from Mauna Loa to Hilo? Or would you state definitively that it's impossible?
Although Mauna Kea and Kohala have not erupted in the historical time period, I'll agree they could vent lava again in the future even without reviewing notes from Geology 201. Following your line of reasoning which would then include a geologic time expanse for Mauna Loa, would you say given the unknowable, changing volume of magma under Mauna Loa, the immeasurable force with which it might erupt, and other numerous factors* beyond our present ability to calculate, that a 6 day lava flow is within a statistical possibility? Or, if you answer that it's definitively impossible, is it because you're certain a Mauna Loa lava flow is in fact from your background in geology, a known known?
* As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. - Donald Rumsfeld
It... lends weight to Goethe's felicitous description of architecture as 'frozen music.' ... Does this, I often wonder, make music 'defrosted architecture?' Listening to Bach's Goldberg variations as I often do on walks when motorway noise and other auditory intrusions preclude the music of silence, it strikes me that it might. - Pub Walks in Underhill Country, Nat Segnit
Thank you, it's always a good suggestion, and certainly important for each of us to further our education and broaden our horizons. I've completed a geology class, but who knows, perhaps I'll brush up on the subject again in the future.
Other people following our discussion may not have studied geology or have the time to take a class however, and they might appreciate a quick reply from you to my question (rather than find the answer which I believe you implied I could discover for myself in a beneficial, one or two semester geology class):
Just as you have suggested the possibility of a Mauna Kea and Kohala eruption outside of historical evidence which suited your contention, I suggested a Mauna Loa eruption time frame slightly outside of historical evidence to indicate the rapid speed at which the lava can move.
Are we only discussing lava flows in the historical record, which would preclude your comments on Mauna Kea and Kohala, or does the discussion include geologic time which might allow for the possibility of a 6 day lava flow from Mauna Loa to Hilo? Or would you state definitively that it's impossible?
Although Mauna Kea and Kohala have not erupted in the historical time period, I'll agree they could vent lava again in the future even without reviewing notes from Geology 201. Following your line of reasoning which would then include a geologic time expanse for Mauna Loa, would you say given the unknowable, changing volume of magma under Mauna Loa, the immeasurable force with which it might erupt, and other numerous factors* beyond our present ability to calculate, that a 6 day lava flow is within a statistical possibility? Or, if you answer that it's definitively impossible, is it because you're certain a Mauna Loa lava flow is in fact from your background in geology, a known known?
* As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. - Donald Rumsfeld
It... lends weight to Goethe's felicitous description of architecture as 'frozen music.' ... Does this, I often wonder, make music 'defrosted architecture?' Listening to Bach's Goldberg variations as I often do on walks when motorway noise and other auditory intrusions preclude the music of silence, it strikes me that it might. - Pub Walks in Underhill Country, Nat Segnit
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