Chapter 419 Bad News and Good News

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 the geological exploration work where the Haute Suez branch is located, and has relatively complete research equipment.

Brown, Weng Xuehai and others did not procrastinate 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 we can start analyzing the data."

"Yes!" Weng Xuehai nodded, and he began to import magnetic field data from the Upper Suez area for nearly 200 days.

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

Suddenly Weng Xuehai's eyes narrowed and he looked to the south of the junction of Suez and Numidia.

"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 Great Gilef Plateau.

"Did you find anything?"

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

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.

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

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."

Haruta Hideki replied: "OK."

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

Although it is not as precise as ground magnetic field radar, it can still roughly analyze some situations.

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."

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

Haruta Hideki on the side studies volcanoes and mantle plumes. He explained with some concern:

"This intrusion was most likely caused by changes in the crust in the northern region that reduced mass pressure, allowing Chad's magma chamber to push high-pressure magma through it."

"North of Chad?" Weng Xuehai looked at the map and discovered that the north of Chad is the southern part of Numidia, and it is also the water pumping area of ​​the Numidia Great Artificial River Project.

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 becomes thinner, which can lead to bulging or even a direct puncture."

Everyone reacted immediately, and their faces suddenly turned pale.

Especially when I think about the sudden eruption of the super mantle plume below, the scene is simply devastating.

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

Compared to the relatively stable South Pacific super plume, the African super plume is less stable.

Once the Nubian aquifer is heavily developed in a short period of time, it will inevitably lead to a sudden decrease in the formation pressure in the area. 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.

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

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

And the amount of oil production will certainly not reach tens of billions of cubic meters a year.

However, tens of billions of cubic meters of fresh water from the Nubian aquifer are exploited every year in places such as Numidia and Suez.

If it is in other areas, overexploitation of groundwater will at most cause ground subsidence, and in more serious cases may induce earthquakes.

But Africa 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.

If a mantle plume magma erupts, the consequences will be disastrous.

Brown entered a data, taking this year's groundwater extraction volume of 48 billion cubic meters, and adding an annual growth rate of about 5%, to start simulating the scale of mass loss in the Nubian aquifer and the rate of decline in its internal pressure.

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.

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

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.

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

"We must find a way to solve this problem no matter what." Brown said seriously.

Everyone discussed it for a while and decided to jointly report the matter so that the company headquarters could find a way to enter Numidia as soon as possible. It would be best to establish a fully authorized branch in Numidia to reduce the scale of local groundwater extraction.

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.

They went on to study geomagnetic data from Suez and surrounding areas.

In particular, the hot spot volcanic relics discovered by Weng Xuehai on the Dajilev Plateau just now have become the focus of research.

Such volcanic relics often contain many rare metals and precious metal minerals.

Through careful analysis of the stratigraphic magnetic field in the area, Weng Xuehai indeed discovered many mineral veins hidden deep underground.

Although this is just a speculation and requires further on-site investigation, Weng Xuehai is still very confident about these mineral veins.

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.

However, considering that the area around Suez is close to the African Super Mantle Plume, he prefers a conservative reserve plan in terms of mining opinions.

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.

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.

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

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

The geological division is in full swing prospecting.

The joint report by Weng Xuehai, Brown and others was also conveyed through layers of communication, and finally reached Li Qingye.

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

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Qingye asked the field business department and the external security business department to prepare relevant plans. In the next two to three years, a number of full-power branches will be established in the areas surrounding the Nubia Water Containment.

As his orders were issued, the various forces of the Homo sapiens Corporation in North Africa became active.

Time passed unconsciously, and more than a month passed.

It’s November 7th.

Li Qingye left his temporary residence in the Shan State Plateau and headed to Johor, Sing Tao.

Just when he arrived in Kampong City, Johor, Baghila reported good news to him.

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