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The Washington Post

Geology Professor Analyzes Realistic Components of Mount Doom

Saturday, October 15, 2022, By Julia Mazzer
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, professor of environmental sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, shared his expertise in the Washington Post article “.” The article highlights some of the realistic components about the eruption of Mount Doom in the fantasy television show “The Rings of Power.” Professor Karson offers his expert advice about the fictional volcano and states, “the steam can be very explosive and even blow rocks apart — but this would require some entrapment of the water that could be funneled and amplified in a bottleneck, like your thumb on a garden hose.”

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