Talk:Mount Taylor (New Mexico)
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[edit] Pre-eruption height
The following speculative and highly implausible material has been removed from the article:
- Estimates vary about how high the mountain was before the eruption, common estimates are between 12,000 and 17,000 feet, although more recent estimates estimate that it could have been much higher, between 15,000 and 22,000 feet[citation needed].
If anyone can find reliable sources (e.g. a USGS report, or a paper published in a reputable geological journal), it can go back in. --Seattle Skier (talk) 22:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
--Sunoco 03:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Sorry. I know a guy who said that at the ABQ museum , although I was able to find info on it. Info is here.
Says here it may have been as high 25,000 feet.
- Unfortunately Summitpost doesn't count as a reliable source for this kind of information, especially when it is uncited on the Summitpost page. Also, see below for other criticism of this passage. -- Spireguy 02:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] El Malpais and crater development
The statement below is fundamentally incorrect:
"It is part of the same volcanic system as the nearby El Malpais. When Mount Taylor erupted, it cut off a large chunk of the mountain's summit, and estimates vary about how high the mountain was before the eruption."
Mt. Taylor, being one to three million years older than the El Malpais system is in no way part of it. It is two completely different volcanic episodes that happened to occur relatively close by. In this case, I think the burden of citation should be on the claim that thay are of the same system when clearly, they are not.
The eruptions occurred over thousands of years. A single eruption did not cut off a chunk of the summit. Recent studies conducted by the University of New Mexico Geology Department have concluded that the event that shaped the mountain was not explosive, but implosive. The lava reservoir in the mountain flowed out leaving a cavity which eventually collapsed. Brainyak 21:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Brainyak
- Thanks to Brainyak for the input, and yes, the burden should be on the person including the info, so we should probably remove the current passage. But as you seem to be more in the know on this, can you please write a better passage, with citation(s)? -- Spireguy 02:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
