Carbon Monoxide is nearly the same weight as air, and easily circulates with the flow of a breeze. As to the trail being near the top of a hill, not hardly.
Phil
Wrong Carbon Dioxide is heavier than air. Apparently, carbon dioxide had been accumulating from underground springs and was being held down by the water in the lake. When the billion cubic yards of gas finally burst out, it traveled low to the ground—it is heavier than air—until it dispersed. Lake Nyos must now be constantly monitored for carbon-dioxide accumulation
Is this Elkslayer reincarnated?
A billion cubic yards of air mysteriously trapped underwater????????
Duh, air bubbles to the top when released underwater. Even air as dense as CO2. No matter what the temperature gradients might be.
Unless that air is held under water by the invisible hand of ..........Buddha?????????????
Dude the CO2 killed an entire village at Lake Nyos. The fact is that you are clueless.
On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.[1]
The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons (1.6 million tons, according to some sources) of carbon dioxide (CO 2).[2][3] The gas cloud initially rose at nearly 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph; 28 m/s) and then, being heavier than air, descended onto nearby villages, displacing all the air and suffocating people and livestock within 25 kilometres (16 mi) of the lake.[4][5]
A degassing system has since been installed at the lake, with the aim of reducing the concentration of CO 2 in the waters and therefore the risk of further eruptions.
Got no problem with volcanic eruptions releasing lethal gas clouds and killing populations. It happens occasionally.
Do have a problem with your statement that billions of cubic yards of gas was held under thermal layers in the water.
Do you even read the schitt you post?
LOL what you have a problem with is your own complete geological ignorance
So argue with the geologist that determined that these people were killed by a release of CO2 from the lake, I am sure that they could use a laugh
WHAT WAS THE MECHANISM THAT TRIGGERED THIS TRAGIC EVENT? After investigating the site of the disaster, scientists were divided into two camps on the mechanism of rapid CO2 expulsion: (1) CO2 could have burst through the lake as the result of a sudden gas eruption, or (2) CO2 could have accumulated slowly in the lower part of the lake, only to be released abruptly by the overturning of the bottom waters by some unknown mechanism.
It had been known for years that the water in Lake Nyos was extremely enriched in dissolved CO2. The lake overlies a volcanic source, which appears to release CO2 and other gases. However, most of this gas does not escape into the atmosphere, but rather dissolves into the bottom waters of the lake. At a depth of over 200 meter, the sheer weight of the upper lake levels exerts considerable pressures on the bottom waters. This confining pressure allows CO2 to dissolve into the bottom waters without escaping to the surface, in much the same way that the cap on a carbonated beverage prevents CO2 from bubbling out of its container. At a depth of 200 meters, water can hold 15 times its own volume in CO2. It has been estimated that every liter of water in the lower part of the lake may have contained between 1 to 5 liters of CO2!
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