justin_o_guy2
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What happened?
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When LENR in a crust area near the surface gets proper conditions to go faster, the rocks there gets hotter, melting into magma and as it gets more liquid and it gets lighter so it rises, making a pimple that raises up the skin and eventually pops, spewing very liquid magma that is hotter and more fluid than the general core magma (which is cooler, thick and sludgy generally speaking).
I think youve pretty well got that figured, but there may be another element in the equation that makes it want to rise. As it heats up it increases pressure and the further down we go the higher the pressures get. When a formation has more gas pressure ( in PSI) than the drilling fluids weigh, bubbles of gas get into the well bore. They are heading UP,, Theyre lighter, naturally, since theyre a gas, I wouldnt KNOW, for sure, that a melted rock is less dense in terms of Pounds per Cubic inch, than a solid rock, Solid water is less dense than liquid water, because when it crystallizes into ice the structure takes on a shape that cause it to displace more volume. Rocks? Heck,, I dunno what rocks do,, not in the molecular volume difference between "frozen" and "Melted" rock area,, BUT,, I Do know Heat rises And stuff thats moving chooses the path of least resistance,, So, UP makes sense, whether its measurably less dense in terms of Mass per cubic measure, or not.
A Bubble the size of a pea at 12,000 feet pressing itself into a wellbore filled with 10 pound fluid is gonna be BIG and displace a lot of fluid when it gets to the surface.
A cubic yard of molten rock coming to the surface? Eaux MuGawd,,, And what happens if that HOT Magma just happens to cross paths with a decent groundwater supply 120 feet deep? Might get Juuust a Little bit of a steam EX PLO Zhun..
If someone wants to trouble themselves with determining the pressure at the bottom of a 12,000 foot column of 10 pound/gallon fluid and then say a bubble is 1 cubic inch in size, we can figure the volume of the bubble when it gets to the surface,
I dont know what melted ROCK does,,, as pressure is removed from it,, But Ive seen pictures... Sometimes lava just ooozes along,, sometimes, ya get the Vesuvius action..
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