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Fold mountains

    23-Mar-95 23:47:49
Sb: #175454-Fold mountains
Fm: Doug Mitchell 70621,702
To: Jon Woolf 76557,3537
Hi, Jon– I would be a bit stirred up if Mauna Loa 'spit' rocks forcefully or a lot stirred up if it brought up continental rock. I have heard mention of volcanoes bringing up presumed mantle rock fragments, but do not recall what type of volcano that was. I have a fuzzy notion it was some sort other than the really fast, forceful eruption that I gather produces kimberlite with diamonds, but was it ordinarily-explosive eruptions (whatever I mean by that) or peaceful ones like Mauna Loa favors? –Doug