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From: agk@ihuxq.UUCP (Andy Kegel)
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Subject: Re: Earth's Internal Temperature
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 18:23:35 EST
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rmrin@inuxa.UUCP (D Rickert) states:
> Ongoing decay of trapped radioactive matter is responsible for most
> of the heat which shows up in places like Yellowstone and Hawaii.

Nonsense.  NPR's Morning Edition (dated 4/4) had a sequence about the
recent volcanic activity in Hawaii.  A geologist they interviewed clearly
stated that both the Hawaiian Island chain and Yellowstone were good
examples of mid-tectonic-plate upwellings of magma.  NO radioactive matter
of any sort was involved.

	-andy kegel