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Boiling River Near Yellowstone National Park Heats Worries
Mysterious Universe ^ | April 14, 2016 | Paul Seaburn

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: blacksea; catastrophism; earthquake; hydrogensulfide; shoshoneriver; sulfur; yellowstone
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To: GMMC0987; dsrtsage

LOL


21 posted on 04/18/2016 9:52:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Linkee no workee.
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/04/boiling-river-near-yellowstone-national-park-heats-worries/


22 posted on 04/18/2016 9:57:34 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Works fine here. I’m using a nearly-20-year-old CPU and over decade-old OS.


23 posted on 04/18/2016 10:01:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Larry Lucido

Look, Sigmund. Look in the sky. The planets are on fire. It is just as you prophesied. The planets of our solar system, incinerating. Like flaming globes, Sigmund. Like flaming globes.. Ah, ha, ha, ha..


24 posted on 04/18/2016 10:15:18 AM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: Wolfie

The Yellowstone Caldera is probably getting close to its breakout point, geologically. As the earth is slowly cooling and contracting, the weak points of the crust are subject to greater and greater hydraulic pressure. The huge slag plug in the lower parts of this caldera is going to be thrust upward, with an immense degree of force, and all expectations now being assessed against “climate change” will be exceeded by a number of orders of magnitude.

Now, geological time is not measured with a stopwatch, and there is a variability in measuring this interval that may change by thousands of years either way. Something might happen fairly soon, or it might not.

Human beings build structures on KNOWN earthquake zones. After all, the time frame for most of humanity is in terms of 30 years, more or less. Total extinction is not a probable outcome.


25 posted on 04/18/2016 10:25:26 AM PDT by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: Huskrrrr

New crisis for taxation: Earthly Farting
to join Global Warming and Fracking Quakes.


26 posted on 04/18/2016 10:37:50 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: SunkenCiv

Related...

Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Shocking New Video Shows What Is Really Going On At Yellowstone

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/yellowstone-eruption-in-2016-shocking-new-video-shows-what-is-really-going-on-at-yellowstone


27 posted on 04/18/2016 10:40:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: TroutStalker

Hey old bud. I am going to fish Pimlico and Hatteras next month after a couple of weeks at Sunrise Beach. We are going to be at Nag’s Head.

One of the kids moved her family to Tampa and so we are going to be on the water a lot this spring.

Tell Yellowstone to stay easy till I get there next year after Bryce.


28 posted on 04/18/2016 10:45:21 AM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve heard past eruptions of Yellowstone were bad, millions of years ago and such.

I wonder how much is hyperbole and how bad a real eruption would be in terms of the US continuing to function, and people continuing to survive, given our 300+ million population?


29 posted on 04/18/2016 10:49:36 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: TroutStalker

Lol, kinda agree. I was there just after Mt. St. Helens blew and it was kinda neat to scrape the volcanic ash off the car windows in the mornings. The geothermal features at Yellowstone are just incredible.


30 posted on 04/18/2016 10:53:45 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: SunkenCiv
Billings Gazette Story it's already stopped.
31 posted on 04/18/2016 11:14:24 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: rktman

Are you kidding?

BLM would cry and complain that whites intentionally set off the eruption to take the attention away from their movement.


32 posted on 04/18/2016 11:17:37 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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To: GMMC0987

Google Fenimore Landfill in Roxbury NJ. The NJDEP allowed a monster to dump Sandy debris into a landfill causing a hydrogen sulfide nightmare for residents


33 posted on 04/18/2016 11:40:55 AM PDT by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thar she blows!!


34 posted on 04/18/2016 11:41:10 AM PDT by teletech
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To: KC Burke

Been a long time since we were to the Outer Banks, since son got married there twelve years ago.

Let me know when you plan to go to Yellowstone and Utah, one of the places I want to visit. Son in Boulder likes to climb there.

Since we got the RV I am into exploring for as long as I can.


35 posted on 04/18/2016 12:53:36 PM PDT by TroutStalker ("Protect the hypersensitive. Ban everything.")
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To: SunkenCiv; All

Yellowstone is a Super Volcano

‘If This Supervolcano Erupts, Two-Thirds of America Will Be Screwed’

http://www.ryot.org/supervolcano-yellowstone-volcano-will-it-erupt/765673


36 posted on 04/18/2016 1:47:58 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Are there other super volcanos?


37 posted on 04/18/2016 1:56:05 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: BunnySlippers

The World’s 6 Known Supervolcanoes

http://www.ranker.com/list/the-world_s-6-known-supervolcanoes/analise.dubner


38 posted on 04/18/2016 2:02:47 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: SunkenCiv

Years ago while traveling near mount Whitney my dad stopped and we went into a stream with a hot spring in middle.
We went in and the closer you got to the vent the hotter the water.
Cool as can be and NATURAL.


39 posted on 04/18/2016 2:14:45 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
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To: TroutStalker

Since we kept the cabin at Sunrise Beach when we moved to the Phoenix Valley, we pretty well shot our budget that might have put us in the RV universe.

Last summer we did the Canadian Maritime provinces and racked up 9000 miles on my Xterra and a son’s minivan.

This time I’m stuck in the wife’s Accord and will probably have back spasms. LOL


40 posted on 04/18/2016 2:15:21 PM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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