Homo sapiens.

Chapter 420 Bad News and Good News

Weng Xuehai and others rested overnight in the staff hotel.

Early the next morning, a group of people came to the Geological Institute in Gobi City.

This geological institute is in charge of geological exploration in Upper Egypt, and has relatively complete research equipment.

Brown, Weng Xuehai and others did not drag their feet, and quickly started scientific research.

Brown, who was busy updating the magnetic field data analysis system, pressed the confirmation button, and the system completed the update: "The analysis system has been updated, and we can start analyzing the data."

"En!" Weng Xuehai nodded, and he began to import the magnetic field data of the Upper Egypt area for nearly 200 days.

As the data was imported, above the holographic projection equipment on one side, a miniature holographic geological structure model of the Egyptian region emerged.

Suddenly Weng Xuehai's eyes froze and he looked towards the south side of the border between Egypt and Libya.

"This is... the orogenic mountain left by the hotspot remains..." He looked at the location on the map and found that it was on the Great Gillev Plateau.

Such volcanic remains often have many rare metals and precious metal minerals.

After writing the emergency report, they were not too worried. After all, even if there is a super plume eruption, there is still no way to wipe out the Homo sapiens company, not to mention that it will take decades of accumulation.

Weng Xuehai smiled bitterly: "Humans are indeed better at destroying themselves."

Especially when thinking of the sudden eruption of the super mantle plume below, the picture is simply devastating.

After discussing for a while, everyone decided to jointly report the matter, so that the headquarters can intervene in Libya as soon as possible, and it is best to control the Libyan region, thereby reducing the scale of local groundwater exploitation.

The supercomputer simulated for more than ten minutes, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, about 37 to 52 years later, a large-scale magma eruption will erupt in northern Africa.

"There is a hot spot relic, which should be the hot spot volcano in northern Chad, left over from ancient times."

After reading the analysis results, Brown's face became more serious:
"The volcanic activity of the hotspot in northern Chad has increased by 7% in 2.4 months, and the magma chamber below has intruded about 0.3 kilometers north."

The joint report by Weng Xuehai, Brown and others was conveyed layer by layer, and finally came to Li Qingye.

In oil fields where oil is exploited, except for a few high-pressure self-flowing wells, other oil wells need to inject fresh water to raise the underground liquid level of oil.

The underground veins of the Grand Gillev Plateau are all intrusive magmatic rock veins, mainly composed of aluminum, iron, copper, gold and rare earths, and some sulfur and arsenic minerals are also mixed.

Haruta Hideki replied, "OK."

They went on to study the earth's magnetic field data in Egypt and surrounding areas.

If the groundwater extraction scale of the Nubian aquifer is calculated at an annual growth rate of 10% or 20%, the volcanic eruption time may be faster.

Brown's expression became serious: "The activity of the super mantle plume in Africa has increased." He turned his head and said: "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."

"Northern Chad?" Weng Xuehai looked at the map and found that northern Chad is the southern part of Libya, and it is also the pumping area of ​​the Libyan Great Artificial River Project.

After reading the report, he also felt that he could not let it go.

With his orders issued, various forces of Homo sapiens in North Africa became active.

Before I knew it, more than a month had passed.

Through careful analysis of the stratum magnetic field in this area, Weng Xuehai did discover many mineral veins hidden deep underground.

In other areas, over-exploitation of groundwater will at most cause land subsidence, and in severe cases, earthquakes will be induced.

If a large eruption of mantle plume magma is triggered, the consequences will be disastrous.

Although it is not as precise as ground magnetic field radar, it can still resolve some situations in general.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Qingye asked the Ministry of Field Support and the Ministry of Defense to prepare a plan. In the next two to three years, all areas around Nubia's watery area will be brought under control.

"What do you think?" Weng Xuehai doesn't really study volcanoes and mantle plumes.

Hideki Haruta, who is on the side, studies volcanoes and mantle plumes. He explained with some concern:
"This intrusion is most likely due to a change in the crust in the northern region that reduces the mass pressure, allowing that magma chamber in Chad to push the high-pressure magma through."

"You also found the problem." Weng Xuehai asked.

Compared with the relatively stable South Pacific super plume, the African super plume is not stable.

In particular, the hotspot volcanic remains discovered by Weng Xuehai in the Great Gillev Plateau just now have become the focus of research.

Brown also came over and carefully observed the holographic model. He looked at it for a while, then picked up the tablet computer, and flipped through the five cratons and fault zones in Africa.

With the research data of Weng Xuehai and others in Egypt, the efficiency of geological exploration has been greatly improved.

After all, with the application of electrothermal materials and low-temperature superconductors, Homo sapiens' demand for gold, silver and rare metals will also become larger and larger.

In the geological history of the earth, there have been large-scale mantle plume eruptions, such as the Siberian Traps event.

Although this is only a conjecture and further field investigation is needed, Weng Xuehai is still very sure about these veins.

Everyone reacted immediately, and their faces turned pale.

"In any case, we must find a way to solve this problem." Brown said seriously.

Brown entered a data, based on the extraction of 480 billion cubic meters of groundwater this year, plus an annual growth rate of about 5%, and began to simulate the scale of mass loss of the Nubian aquifer and the rate of decline in its internal pressure.

Haruta Hideki continued: "To use a metaphor, 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 bulges or even a direct blowout."

After a while, the historical magnetic field data of the African region is imported.

In addition, the Ministry of Geology is also organizing personnel to continue to analyze the magnetic field data from all over the world, hoping to find some veins of precious metals and rare metals that are suitable for mining and have relatively high reserves.

However, considering that the surrounding areas of Egypt are close to the African super plume, he is more inclined to a conservative reserve plan in terms of mining.

You must know that exploiting groundwater is somewhat different from exploiting oil.

The scale of its eruption can reach about one-third of the Yellowstone volcano.

But the African region is different. Below Africa is one of the two super mantle plumes in the world, and it is still an unstable super mantle plume.

However, Libya, Egypt and other places exploit tens of billions of cubic meters of fresh water from the Nubian aquifer every year.

However, once the Nubian aquifer is developed in a short period of time, the formation pressure in this area will inevitably drop suddenly, and the high-pressure magma of the mantle plume hidden underground is very likely to invade the surrounding area along the magma chamber of the hot spot volcano. Trigger large-scale geological activities.

The Ministry of Geology is looking for ore in full swing.

Finding new ore veins has become an important task at present.

Moreover, the amount of oil extracted will certainly not reach the level of tens of billions of cubic meters a year.

"Have you found anything?"

Came to September 11th.

Li Qingye left the temporary residence on the Shan Plateau and went to Johor State in Xingdao.

Just when he arrived in Kampung City, Johor, Bagheera reported a piece of good news to him.

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