Lounge of the Lab Lemming
I'm a geochemist. My main interest is in-situ mass spectrometry, but I have a soft spot in my heart for thermodynamics, poetry, drillers, trees, bicycles, and cosmochemistry.
An accidental drilling in the deeps Reveals a sleeper agent- felsic melt Invisible to seismic, magma sleeps Until basaltic trigger card is dealt. Diffraction limits fuzz the chamber’s sides Viscosity impedes acoustic tests A covert, dried out dacite simply hides Above basaltic plumbing, long at rest. Three hundred years, this hidden magma sleeps Until it’s poked by hydrothermal drill. Old pumice, cuttings from the drilled-out deeps Show magma lurking, poised to blast and kill. Basaltic dykes wake sleepers f
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Lounge of the Lab Lemming