maybe they can drill some pressure relief holes to vent the super volcano.
Think of how much toxic carbon would be put into the global climate. /s
ping
Bush’s Fault!!
man, you guys are slippin’....
These types of volcanoes (those well inland) are especially powerful because of the type of magma involved. Continental magmas are thick and highly viscous. Thicker, more viscous (granitic) magmas tend to trap explosive gases more readily. Other types of volcanoes, like those in Hawaii and such, consist of basaltic magma. Basaltic magmas are a lot more fluid and so run out of a volcano, rather than blast. Volcanoes like Mount St. Helens, located at the boundary between continent and ocean, are a mixture of the two, and therefore intermediate in terms of their power and danger.
Even if she blows, DC will probably still survive. (sigh)
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Not long after the BBC and Discovery Channel teamed up on their Supervolcano docudrama, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois was sufficiently flustered that he wrote Paul Doss, at the time Yellowstone's supervisory geologist, wondering what he should tell his constituents.
Just in case anyone needed more proof that Durbin is a moron. lol
Someone a lot more knowledgable than I about the time periods that the last super-eruptions occurred can probably answer this question...
Do we know what the wind patterns looked like across North America when they occurred? And, if we do, were they the same as they generally are now?
Another question I have is how would the eruption itself effect the weather over the area (and surrounding areas), and would it impact the flow of the jet stream due to the increased heat? How would that affect the fallout of ash and such?
“The zircon and quartz data show the geochemical signature of a waning cycle.”
Oh, goody, so the next one may only be 250 times the size of Mt. St. Helens. I hope neither I nor my grandchildren’s grandchildren are around for that waning blowout.
Just had a 3.5
Biggest one in 3 days.
Move?
Mt Pinatubo started with a lot of seismic activity and it didn’t take long for it to let go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo