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To: Mike Darancette; All

A meteor might have punched into the original magma chamber, but then what has caused the continued episodes. I hope you looked at the map. I just read the article and found several errors. The mentioned the 640 kya eruption, but not the two previous ones going back to 2 my. Then they say it will be another 500 ky before the next one while most believe there is a good likelihood of one in the next 100 ky. They also try to make it really safe by saying it won’t be for 1/2 million years, but elsewhere I have read that since the last big one there have been about 70 small ones, so it could be building up to one of those.


32 posted on 11/06/2015 1:21:51 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

The theory is the impacter punched a hole that triggered a hotspot 16 mya. The North American plate moves over the hotspot which feeds supervolcanic eruptions. What appears to be a line of eruptions are all from the same hotspot the plate above is moving not the hotspot.


38 posted on 11/06/2015 8:24:15 AM PST by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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