Talk:Mount Mazama
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[edit] Future events
Anyone have an approximate timeframe for the events described in the Next Phase? section (and that ? needs to be removed, so I may edit that to something else)? Given the thickness of the walls of the crater and the slowness (in human terms) of geological processes, I'd assume this is several million years in the future, as are any potential future eruptions. I just want to clarify for the geologically-challenged that their hotel reservations for next summer aren't in danger.
I was surprised to learn there is still volcanic activity. I would have assumed that the massiveness of the explosion had completely emptied Mazama's magma chamber, and that by now any magma plumes or subduction zones or whatever had moved sufficiently to make Mazama an extinct volcano, but I'm not a vulcanologist--I just took a geology class in college. I guess 7,000 years isn't long, though (in geological terms). cluth 11:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dubious
I'm not so sure about the statement that the breach of the rim will cause massive flooding. Unless the rate of erosion, once the rim is breached, is comparable to the rate of water release, the water level will simply be constrained by the low point in the rim. Verisimilus T 13:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
