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Here is a crude picture I drew ... imagine both of the cylinders were filled up steadily in the same amount of time (say, 1000 years) ... the smaller one just grew at a slower rate. For some reason, the results show that a greater PERCENT of the smaller volume is hot ( > 1150 K) compared to the...

I'm sorry - I don't know why the images are showing so small ... magma is flowing from some hot reservoir deep in the Earth (say, at about 30 km depth) into a shallower reservoir (maybe 8 km depth). Here it is cooling to the temperature of the crust, which is set by the geothermal gradient of...

Homework Statement Hot magma (1500 K) is flowing into the Earth at rates of 0.05 meters/year, 0.5 meters per years and 1 meter per year. Although more total volume of magma will retain a temperature at or above 1150 K at higher rates of flow for any given time (say, at 1000 years), a higher...

By the way, I know the pressure would keep a certain amount of gas in solution regardless of what it "wanted" to do, but in my real problem (which seemed to annoying long and complicated to post here) the fluid will be ascending to a point above it's saturation pressure and have more freedom...

If you shake up a bottle of soda and it gets slightly larger because the disturbed gas in solution is trying to expand but cannot, could you use the difference in (THE SMALL AMOUNT THE BOTTLE ACTUALLY SWELLED) and the (POTENTIAL AMOUNT THE GAS WOULD SWELL IF NOT CONTAINED) to determine the...