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The Effects of Geollywood

The Effects of Geollywood. Richard Coger III, Jay Easterling, Kevin Jones and Stephen Parker NWACC General Geology EMPACTS Project Dr. Wendi Williams, Instructor. The Movies. Armageddon Volcano Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. video. The Size of Texas

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The Effects of Geollywood

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  1. The Effects of Geollywood Richard Coger III, Jay Easterling, Kevin Jones and Stephen Parker NWACC General Geology EMPACTS Project Dr. Wendi Williams, Instructor

  2. The Movies Armageddon Volcano Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

  3. video

  4. The Size of Texas • Ceres is about the same size as Texas • The objective is to drill to 800ft and plant a nuclear bomb • Split it in two and it misses Earth

  5. Purdue University’s Earth Impact Effects Program • Shows there would be a negligible effect if impacted • Too much mass lost in asteroid

  6. Is 800 feet realistic? • If truly the size of Texas this depth would be less than 1% of diameter • Just not deep enough to split it in half

  7. Even if it was large enough to destroy Earth, what would happen if they did happen to split it? • Still have many large chunks that will hit Earth doing damage

  8. Volcano

  9. There is a Volcano erupting in downtown Los Angeles • Is it possible for this to happen? • Can lava flow in a subway tunnel?

  10. What is the major west coast fault zone?Where do the volcanoes typically form ?Where is Los Angeles located in relation to these areas? • There is a Volcano erupting in downtown Los Angeles • Is it possible for this to happen? • Can lava flow in a subway tunnel?

  11. Not possible to have a volcano in L.A. • No hotspot there right now • California is so heavily monitored anyway there would be much earlier warning

  12. Supposing it could happen, would lava be able to flow through subway tunnels? • Actually, yes it could • Concrete and brick walls would act as insulator

  13. What does this guy have to do with geology?

  14. Austin Powers • Could a nuclear weapon really make all the world’s volcanoes erupt? • All the volcanoes would have to be connected to the earth’s core • Not all volcanoes are • Some are from magma chambers from subduction zones

  15. Austin Powers • Some like the ones in Hawaii are from hotspots • They continually erupt unlike volcanoes from subduction zones • Drilling will not get far enough down • Deepest drilling was about 10km • Stopped because heat was too much for the drill head

  16. What does all this mean? Hollywood will always blow things out of proportion Live your life without worry Whatever a movie says will most likely not happen Movies are made for entertainment

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