Weng Xuehai and others rested one night in the staff hotel.
Early the next morning, a group of people arrived at the Geology Institute in Gobi City.
This geological institute is responsible for geological exploration work in the Upper Egypt area and has relatively complete research equipment.
Brown, Weng Xuehai and others did not drag their feet and quickly started scientific research work.
Brown, who was busy upgrading the magnetic field data analysis system, pressed the confirmation button and the system completed the update: "The analysis system has been updated and data analysis can begin."
"Yes!" Weng Xuehai nodded, and he began to import magnetic field data from the Upper Egypt region for the past 200 days.
As the data was imported, a miniature holographic geological structure model of the Egyptian region emerged above the holographic projection equipment on one side.
Suddenly Weng Xuehai's eyes froze and he looked towards the south side of the border between Egypt and Libya.
"This is... the orogenic area left behind by the hot spot ruins..." He looked at the location on the map and found that this location was on the Dajilev Plateau.
After a while, the historical magnetic field data of the African region was imported.
Everyone reacted immediately, and their faces suddenly turned pale.
Time passed without realizing it, and more than a month passed.
"Northern Chad?" Weng Xuehai looked at the map and discovered that northern Chad is southern Libya and is also the water pumping area of Libya's large artificial river plan.
"We must find a way to solve this problem no matter what." Brown said seriously.
After reading the report, he also believed that it could not be left alone.
"There is a hot spot relic, which should be the hot spot volcano in northern Chad, a relic from ancient times."
Such volcanic relics often contain many rare metals and precious metal minerals.
However, in places such as Libya and Egypt, tens of billions of cubic meters of fresh water are extracted from the Nubian aquifer every year.
Through careful analysis of the stratigraphic magnetic field in the area, Weng Xuehai indeed discovered many mineral veins hidden deep underground.
After writing the emergency report, they were not too worried. After all, even if a super mantle plume erupted, there was still no way to exterminate the Homo sapiens company, not to mention that it would take decades of accumulation.
The underground mineral veins on the Great Zhilev Plateau are all intrusive magmatic veins, mainly composed of aluminum, iron, copper, gold and rare earths, with some sulfur and arsenic minerals mixed in.
The supercomputer simulated for more than ten minutes and finally came to the conclusion that in about 37 to 52 years, a large-scale magma eruption will occur in northern Africa.
Once the Nubian aquifer is heavily developed in a short period of time, it will inevitably cause the formation pressure in the area to suddenly decrease. The high-pressure magma hidden underground in the mantle plume will most likely invade the surrounding areas along the magma chamber of the hot spot volcano.
Trigger large-scale geological activities.
Although it is not as precise as ground magnetic field radar, it can still roughly analyze some situations.
Although this is just a speculation and further on-site investigation is needed, Weng Xuehai is still very confident about these mineral veins.
After all, with the application of electrothermal materials and low-temperature superconductors, Homo sapiens' demand for gold, silver and rare metals will become increasingly large.
Weng Xuehai smiled bitterly: "Human beings are indeed better at destroying themselves."
Especially when I think about the sudden eruption of the super mantle plume below, the scene is simply devastating.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Qingye asked the Ministry of Field Support and the Ministry of Defense to prepare a plan to bring all the areas surrounding the Nubia Water Containment under control within the next two to three years.
After reading the analysis results, Brown's expression became even more solemn:
"The hotspot volcanic activity in northern Chad has increased by 2.4% in 7 months, and the magma chamber below has intruded about 0.3 kilometers northward."
"You also found a problem." Weng Xuehai asked.
The joint report by Weng Xuehai, Brown and others was also conveyed through layers of communication, and finally reached Li Qingye's hands.
In particular, the hot spot volcanic relics just discovered by Weng Xuehai on the Dajilev Plateau have become the focus of research.
As his orders were issued, various forces of Homo sapiens in North Africa also became active.
Haruta Hideki continued: "To use an analogy, the current situation is like a tire filled with high-pressure gas. Part of the rubber on the surface of the tire has become thinner, which will cause bulging or even a direct puncture."
Brown's expression became a little solemn: "The activity of the African super mantle plume has increased." He turned his head and ordered: "Yingmu, please call up the historical monitoring data of the African region from the magnetic field satellite, and then import it into the analysis system."
If it is in other areas, excessive exploitation of groundwater will at most cause ground subsidence, and in more severe cases may induce earthquakes.
They continued to study the geomagnetic field data of Egypt and surrounding areas.
In oil fields that exploit oil, except for a few high-pressure self-effluent wells, other oil wells need to inject fresh water to raise the underground liquid level of the oil.
Finding new mineral veins has become an important task at present.
Brown also came over and looked at the holographic model carefully. After looking at it for a while, he picked up his tablet and flipped through the five cratons and fault zones in Africa.
If the scale of groundwater extraction in the Nubian aquifer is calculated at an annual growth rate of 10% or 20%, the volcanic eruption may occur faster.
Haruta Hideki replied: "OK."
"What do you think?" Weng Xuehai doesn't really study volcanoes and mantle plumes.
Next to him, Hideki Haruta studies volcanoes and mantle plumes. He explained with some concern:
"This intrusion is most likely due to changes in the crust in the northern region, which resulted in a reduction in mass pressure, allowing the magma chamber in Chad to push high-pressure magma through."
In the geological history of the earth, large-scale mantle plume eruptions have occurred, such as the Siberian Traps event.
"Anything found?"
In addition, the Ministry of Geology is also organizing manpower to continue analyzing magnetic field data from around the world, hoping to find some precious metal and rare metal veins that are suitable for mining and have relatively high reserves.
You must know that mining groundwater is somewhat different from mining oil.
But the African region is different. Below Africa is one of the two largest super mantle plumes in the world, and it is also an unstable super mantle plume.
Everyone discussed it for a while and decided to jointly report the matter and ask the headquarters to intervene in Libya as soon as possible. It would be best to control the Libyan area and reduce the scale of local groundwater extraction.
The scale of its eruption can reach about one-third the size of the Yellowstone volcano.
Brown input a data, taking this year's groundwater extraction volume of 48 billion cubic meters, plus an annual growth rate of about 5%, and began to simulate the scale of mass loss in the Nubian aquifer, and the rate of decline in its internal pressure.
Compared with the relatively stable South Pacific super plume, the African super plume is not stable.
If a mantle plume magma erupts, the consequences will be disastrous.
With the research data of Weng Xuehai and others in Egypt, the efficiency of geological exploration has been greatly improved.
And the amount of oil production will definitely not reach tens of billions of cubic meters a year.
The Ministry of Geology is in full swing prospecting.
However, considering that the areas around Egypt are close to the African Super Mantle Plume, he prefers a conservative reserve plan in terms of mining opinions.
It’s November 7th.
Li Qingye left his temporary residence in the Shan State Plateau and headed to Johor, Star Island.
Just when he arrived in Kampong City, Johor, Baghila reported good news to him.
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