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Article: <5fhkem$95s@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: TUNGUSKA
Date: 4 Mar 1997 17:00:06 GMT
In article: <5fdlec$gdr@pollux.cmc.ec.gc.ca> Greg Neill
writes:
>>> Also, why would a pool of methane below ground rise,
even
>>> if a fissure were to open up?
>>> ynecgan@cmc.doe.ca (Greg Neill)
>
>> Because methan is lighter than air.
>> saquo@ix.netcom.com
>
> So, it would *all* have decided to escape at once, hovering
in
> a single cloud several hunderd feet in the air, waiting to
> detonate?
> ynecgan@cmc.doe.ca (Greg Neill)
Since it wants to rise, and since it was a huge cloud, a pool of gas just under the thin frozen surface of wet volcanic dust that was deposited after the pole shift, it would be a huge cloud of gas, staying together as the first gas to leave would be followed immediately by more gas, pushing aside the regular air, rising in layer after layer of solid methane gas, and all rising as a cloud, yes. It didn't wait around for a spark, a spark occurred BEFORE IT COULD DISSIPATE.