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[Charlie P]

Yellowstone is a huge Volcano???

Was watching TV last night and they were discussing this it was very interesting anf scary.

Yellowstone Volcano: Is "the Beast" Building to a Violent Tantrum?

StandardNET

August 30, 2001
When the volcano in Yellowstone National Park blew 6,400 centuries ago, it obliterated a mountain range, felled herds of prehistoric camels hundreds of miles away and left a smoking hole in the ground the size of the Los Angeles Basin.

Modern Yellowstone doesn't dwell on its cataclysmic past"”or its potential for another monster eruption.

Rangers tell people to keep their distance from bison and steaming geysers. But there are no signs, aside from nature's own bubbling mud pots and geysers, that visitors are wandering through the caldera of one of the largest active volcanoes in the world.


"This is a geologic park, and not many know it," said Robert Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Utah who has spent his career piecing together the story of the Yellowstone volcano. "It's not a bison park. Not an elk park. It's a geologic park."

New sensors have allowed researchers to confirm a suspicion that Smith has held for a long time: that the ancient volcano scientists dub "the beast" is a living force. The instruments record a continuing pattern of heaving and bulging and act as an early warning system.

Installed without fanfare and hidden from view, the sensitive devices are an acknowledgment that the past could be prologue, that this seemingly serene plateau could blow so hard it would make the 1980 Mount St. Helens explosion look like a sneeze. Stepped-Up Monitoring


Here's a link to the rest of the story.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...llowstone.html

They stated if it were to blow again enough ash would be dispersed to cover the USA 5 inches deep.It would basically blacken out the Sun. They also mentioned something about the surface of Yellow stone rising like three feet in the recent past. Which isn't a very good sign.

[Charlie P]

Here's another interesting article.
http://www.unmuseum.org/supervol.htm

About 4 miles beneath Yellowstone National Park's beautiful scenery is a forty-mile-wide chamber full of molten rock under incredibly high pressure. This magma is what powers Yellowstone's fantastic geysers and hot springs, but is it about to erupt in a cataclysmic explosion that will decimate the western United States and push mankind to the brink of extinction?

Yellowstone is the crown jewel of the United States national park system. Its mountain vistas, wildlife and geographic features are visited and admired by people from around the world. More than any of those, however, it's the park's thermo-geological features that make it unlike any other part of the globe. No place on earth has as many steam vents, hot springs and active geysers as Yellowstone.

To create these features requires two elements in abundance: lots of water and lots of heat. The water is provided by the generous rain and snow the region gets. The heat comes from deep inside the earth: volcanic heat. Though you might not be able to tell from just looking at it, Yellowstone National Park is built on an ancient volcano. Not just a regular volcano, either. It lays on top of what some people have started to call a "super volcano

[Charlie P]

Still, the super volcano at Yellowstone, and its kin around the world are a credible threat to man. Even the United States Geological Survey, usually conservative about such matters, admits that should a major eruption occur the results would have "global consequences that are beyond human experience and impossible to anticipate fully."

[Aught Six]

I was thinking of one day buying a little piece of land near Bozeman or Butte, MT. Maybe I should rethink that.

Hey, I read something very interesting last night. Don't think it was here, but I don't remember for sure. Apparently during winter in the Northern Hemisphere so much water is precipitated that it actually puts enough weigh on the crust to compact the poles 1/10th of an inch. This causes the equator to bulge, and increases magma pressure under the crust. There have been correlations between winter and greatly increased volcanic activity around the world.

[Cougar Mag]

Been there once, an amazing and beautiful place. But who knows, it might be another 640,000 years before another eruption.

[burniegoeasily]

Yep. Where do you think the heat and pressure that causes the geyser comes from

[Charlie P]

Magic beans?

[burniegoeasily]

ORIGINAL: Charlie P

Magic beans?

lol

[Knightia]

Yep. Where do you think the heat and pressure that causes the geyser comes from

I thought it was laxtive fiber formula & a big on/ off valve plug.

Who knows a major eruption could be tommorrow.

This story should be told to all new& prespective persons moving here[] & dont forget the multi warhead nuks here& the background radation from all the uranium.

I would like for my state to stay the least populated.

[quiksilver]

A 75-year human lifetime is but a blip on the radar of Geologic time. Pollution is a bigger threat to humanity as we know it.