The Shoshone River bubbling like jets in a very smelly Jacuzzi
Posted on 04/18/2016 9:23:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A river near Yellowstone National Park suddenly changed colors and began to boil and emit yellowish noxious gases. Some witnesses wondered if "we're all about to die." Is this just another volcanic vent or a sign of bad things to come?
The Shoshone River runs through Cody, Wyoming, just east of Yellowstone National Park. It's close enough to be a 'canary in a coal mine' for unusual geothermic events and that's precisely what happened on March 25th when photographer Dewey Vanderhoff spotted the Shoshone River mysteriously boiling ... and more...
Yes, it's most likely a volcanic vent, but it's in the Shoshone River, which was once known as the Stinkingwater and not because of buffalos bathing in it. Explorer John Colter, who was a key member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, visited the area in the winter of 1807 and wrote about the many geysers and hot springs and an unusual sulfur-smelling river. Geyser cones, sinkholes and abandoned sulfur mines are evidence that others found them too.
However, that was two centuries ago and the geothermal activities have all but disappeared, says Wyoming Game and Fish Department biologist Jason Burkhardt.
We're kind of in a lull compared to when John Colter was in this area. There was substantially more geothermal activity that was occurring back then.
Until now. While this particular event ended after four days, Burkhardt says recent other activity has released enough hydrogen sulfide into the river that there's a 1.5 mile sulfur-smelling dead zone that is completely void of fish...
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The Shoshone River bubbling like jets in a very smelly Jacuzzi
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Check for any EPA activity in the area.
Bush’s Fault
The vertical biogeochemical structure of the Black Sea comprises four distinct layers. The euphotic zone extends from the free surface to the depth of the 1% light level and has a maximum thickness of ~50 m. This is the layer of active aerobic planktonic processes, and is also characterized by high oxygen concentrations of the order of 300 micro moles. The uppermost 20-30 m of the aphotic zone is called the oxycline/upper nitracline zone in which oxygen concentration reduces to about 10 micro mole limit whereas nitrate concentration increases to around 6-8 micro moles. In the subsequent oxygen deficient layer of about 30 m, known as the Suboxic Layer (SOL), nitrate concentrations undergo a sharp decrease to trace values. The SOL is followed by a deep anoxic layer consisting of hydrogen sulphide and ammonium pools. The suboxic-anoxic interface zone involves a series of complicated bacterially-mediated redox reactions. These control the downward transport of nitrate and the upward transports of ammonium and sulfide near the interface zone. The suboxic layer most commonly exists in very thin layers within steep chemical gradients in sediments of rivers and other eutrophic systems, but also exists in the major hypoxic ocean basins. However, it is most easily studied in the Black Sea owing to the great physical stability of the water column, which enabled accurate resolution of the oxygen and sulfide gradient structure. Thus, they seem to maintain a well-defined redox structure which constitutes one of the unique characteristics of the Black Sea biogeochemical system.(In this case, the real SOL doesn't start until hitting the anoxia level ;')
Lets assume Yellowstone is going to blow...whadda we gonna do, get a really big cork?
“suddenly changed colors and began to boil and emit yellowish noxious gases”
I do that after hot wings and steamed oysters.
I just hope it happens when we are there this year. Can’t think of a better way to go.
Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.
Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
Oceanography 101 -- Chapter 9 - Ocean Circulation -- Could the Oceans become "anoxic?" -- Large portions of the world’s ocean basins have gone "anoxic" in the past. During a million year interval of the Late Cretaceous Period the world’s ocean basins became density stratified. This period called the Cenomanian-Turonian 'Oceanic Anoxic Event' (OAE). This happened between about 90.5 and 91.5 million years ago (the Cenomanian and Turonian are named epochs of the Cretaceous Period). The world was much warmer in the Cretaceous Period, and there were no continental glaciers. The oceans were warmer, and a thick thermocline and intense pycnocline blocked oxygen-rich surface waters from penetrating deep water. Organic-rich deposits preserved in ocean sediments of the OAE show that there is no bioturbation, suggesting that plankton in the grew in the shallow mixing zone was not consumed if their remains sank into the anoxic condition that existed at the seabed. Density stratification can cut of oxygen supply to deep water in restricted basins (including isolated lake basins and inland sea basins). The Black Sea is an inland sea that has anoxic conditions. Marine surface waters flow into the Black Sea from the Aegean Sea through the shallow Bosphorus Straight (Figure 9-36). Denser saline water trapped in the basin are unable to circulate out of the basin. A strong pycnocline prevents oxygen from reaching depths below about 100 meters. [Fig. 9-36. Halosaline density stratification cuts off oxygen supply to deep water in the Black Sea, causing anoxic conditions below ~100 meters. Normal seawater exists above a halocline in the basin.]
It’s the result of all that fracking I tell ya!
Personally, I am hoping to be running a marathon to celebrate my 110th birthday and get hit by a drunk driving billionaire.
“Hey Boo-Boo!”
add unpasteurized goat cheese and beets to the mix and we are talking the End of Days stuff.
“I just hope it happens when we are there this year. Can’t think of a better way to go.”
Channeling Harry Truman?
Reading the article brought to mind that lake that burps toxic gases. I was going to look up its name, but you saved me the trouble.
It jellystone pops, it’ll make #blm seem a little less bothersome.
I’ve had most of my three score and ten. My health will never improve and we love Yellowstone. Perhaps our thirteenth trip there will be the last. I’ll go happy if I’m fishing the Yellowstone at Buffalo Ford on ground zero.
Load our survival stuff into our RV and drive SE or maybe S and SW.
geothermal changes happen and not always indicate an impending ‘event’ of some kind.
case in point one of my fav areas of the park is the ‘mud volcano’ area in Hayden valley. A very active area. In the late 1970s a place called ‘frying pan basin’ was mellow, bubbles up through the hot springs area beneath the wooden walk way sounded like bacon sizzling in a frying pan. Early 1980s that changed dramatically as a fumaroles developed on an adjacent hill side (killing a stand of trees) and small mud volcanos developed beneath the wooden walk way. By the end of the e 80’s the trail was rerouted around the new little mud volcanos. By the early 1990’s activity ceased and the basin reverted once again to its more mellow ‘frying pan’ basin.
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