Posted on 08/11/2008 9:30:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
How hot is the Yellowstone hotspot? At 80 kilometres beneath the Earth's surface it's about 1450° C, say researchers -- which, for a supervolcano, is only lukewarm.
That doesn't mean we won't get another eruption. The last explosion, some 642,000 years ago, created the Yellowstone caldera and blanketed half of the present day US in ash.
But Derek Schutt of Colorado State University believes the relatively tepid temperature means the supervolcano could be on its last legs...
The team determined that the temperature at [80 km depth] was likely to be between 50° C and 200° C hotter than the surrounding rock -- at least 1450° C...
This adds to suggestions that the plume has disconnected from its heat source in the Earth's core. If this is true, it means the plume could be dying -- and that the sequence of mega-eruptions could come to an end.
(Excerpt) Read more at environment.newscientist.com ...
Not just “Monday” ... “Monday Morning”.
*blech*
Well, for another buck-fifteen, anyway...
Actually, I don’t.
I’m always on the Undead Thread, except when I’m not.
This month, it’s here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2051714/posts?page=682#683
BUT....... That could change..
Yes, agreed, and those are both recent.
That would probably cool it off even further. I mean, whats she got (besides money) that I havent got?
Well, she has one heck of an ego, and she feels a need to tell everyone how hot she is.
We should send her there for a few months to prove it.
:-)
Just remember to plan your escape route if you are going to sit in the hot pools around there. There is a chance that the man and woman who just took their clothes off and are sitting next to you are really Park Rangers and when they get out they are going to announce the rest of you are under arrest for trespassing.
but, but, won’t global warming make it...warmer?
LOL!
She needs to disappear from public view. Who ever told her she was pretty? Or sexy? *barf*
Whew. I’ve been waking up at nights worrying about the “overdue” super volcano explosion.
You bet. In reality, they haven't a clue what is happening over 60 miles below the surface.
Maybe her Mom or Dad, or maybe no one.
I’m happy I’m not her.
:-)
I never lay awake worrying about anything! I mean, by the time you hear about it, it’s WAY-Y-Y too late!
I’m sure she must have been told from the day she was born, but, *sheesh* I’ve found better-lookin’ faces on the end of a fish hook!
I suspect, if she were MY kid, she would have had a comeuppance at 16, rather than a Coming Out Party! LOL!
Glob Al is all talk and no show.
The lefties suffer from terminal Cranial-Rectal Inversion, so I don’t pay any attention to what they say. They’re talking out of the bottoms of their bottoms...
;o]
Drill to the core there; drill to the core now!
We MUST restore the heat source, or this “jewel of the National Park System” will die!
The NPS MUST preserve the Natural Wonders we have entrusted to them!
Where is the Sierra Club? Where is EarthFirst!? Where is the OUTRAGE?!?
Code Green members meet at Old Faithful Visitor's Center a week from Saturday at 8 AM.
Bring handcuffs, idiotic costumes, funny hats, garish makeup, illiterate placards, and any other paraphernalia you feel necessary to a successful protest. Chant sheets will be distrubuted on site.
And do NOT forget to inform your friends in the Media!
Don't relax just yet; it's a ruse. Yellowstone Caldera has donated some of its heat allotment to Toba Caldera, in a stealth end-run.
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