I've got a quick question for the physicists out there. I have been
discussing the Yellowstone area on another group working with fossil
forests etc.. It seems that the whole are is made up of volcanic materials
overlying older sedimentary rock. This implies to me that the volacanoes
must have come about at a point after the flood.
My question is how long does it take an active volcano to cool to ambient
temp.
Ship rock in Arizona? is the eroded remains of a volcano and since the
volcano must have come about after the flood (the lava from that volcano
clearly overlies a tremendous amount of sedimentary material) I wondered if
I could use an argument that it would take thousands of years just for a
volcano to cool after it becomes dormant not even to mention erode.
Obviosly I could point to thousands of volcanoes around the world that
would be difficult to explain if they took a long time to cool.
So taking a Grand Teton or Mt. St. Helen example how long does it take a
mass of lava at x temp to cool to the ambient temp of the rock around it?
Months, years or thousands of years? I really don't have any feel for what
the answer would be.
Thanks,
Joel
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