Re: pinhole Underwater Volcanoes

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 13:26:38 PDT 

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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:26:38 -0700
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Re: pinhole Underwater Volcanoes

I've only seen movies of pillow lava from shallow depths (<100m) and steam
is definitely generated.

You're right that the boiling point increases as the pressure increases,
but lava temperatures are also pretty high. sometimes over 1000 °C.

Under the great pressures in the deep ocean this still isn't high enough to
boil water to make steam.

Paul D

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