[ETL]

This is the location of the Yellowstone's hotspot track. The triangles indicate general locations of the Yellowstone and Snake River Plain age-progressive volcanoes with ages shown in millions of years, plotted on a topography map of the Western United States.

Credit: Virginia Tech

[BenLurkin]

Intersting

[DannyTN]

1. So we're not all going to die from the yellowstone supervolcano?
2. Atlantis is somewhere under Idaho?

[onedoug]

I never bought the plume theory either.

[redgolum]

So asteroid strike?

[Red Badger]

I remember this theory from back in college.........decades ago..............

[Billthedrill]

In Idaho we’re just waiting for the thing to get safely over the border into Wyoming. Then we won’t have to worry about it anymore.

[hanamizu]

Boise, Idaho has a Geothermal Heating District that provides hot water heat to homes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...the line of volcanoes in Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming that dots part of the Midwest.

Not only do the subducted plates move, but they have changed where our states are located. Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming are now in the Midwest. People in Chicago, St. Louis, and Minneapolis need to keep an eye out for new volcanos in their neighborhoods.

[C19fan]

Another piece of the Farallon Plate is the Juan de Fuca plate. That plate is sub ducting under the Pacific Northwest creating the Cascade volcanoes and in the future triggering a monster earthquake and potential tsunami.

[SargeK]

“...propagated northwestward.”

Not sure how much credence I give to an article that can’t get cardinal directions right.

[Wissa]

"The process started at the Oregon-Idaho border about 16 million years ago and propagated northwestward, forming a line of volcanoes that are progressively younger as they stretched northwest to present-day Wyoming," Zhou added.

I think Zhou needs to put sticky notes on the sides of her monitor labeled "East" and West".

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[rockrr]

"This evidence was in direct contradiction to the plume model," Zhou said.

Wait, what? And all this time they've been telling us the "Science Is Settled™"?!!

[TigersEye]

... the oceanic Farallon plate, ..., wedged itself beneath the present-day Western United States.

To put that in technical terms, it's all the result of a tectonic wedgie.

[Grimmy]

The volcano came from Oregon/Idaho, so they’ll be on the hook for reparations when it blows, right?

This is Current Year, America! Gotta know who to sue.

[editor-surveyor]

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LOL!

30 million years? - Try 4500 years!

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