For some time now, we have seen overwhelming evidence that
supernovae explosions in starburst galaxies drive significant
amounts of metals out of galactic disks. The difficult question
has been determining how far away from a galaxy these metals go.
I will present new measurements of the size (and size evolution)
of metal-enriched regions in the IGM and discuss their relation
to starburst winds. I will attempt to synthesize these results
with our direct knowledge of the wind dynamics in local starburst
galaxies.
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