Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[Happy2BMe]

Scientists Closely
Monitoring Yellowstone
ProLiberty.com
12-23-3

 

Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity...

 

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park area has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago making the next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that, in parts of Yellowstone, the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century.

 

In July, 2003, Yellowstone Park rangers closed the entire Norris Geyser Basin because of deformation of the land and excessive high ground temperatures. There is an area that is 28 miles long by 7 miles wide that has bulged upward over five inches since 1996, and this year the ground temperature on that bulge has reached over 200 degrees (measured one inch below ground level).

 

There was no choice but to close off the entire area. Everything in this area is dying: The trees, flowers, grass and shrubs. A dead zone is developing and spreading outward. The animals are literally migrating out of the park.

 

Then during the last part of July one of the Park geologists discovered a huge bulge at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The bulge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake and the water temperature at the surface of the bulge has reached 88 degrees and is still rising.

 

Keep in mind that Yellowstone Lake is a high mountain lake with very cold water temperatures. The Lake is now closed to the public. It is filled with dead fish floating everywhere. The same is true of the Yellowstone river and most of the other streams in the Park. Dead and dying fish are filling the water everywhere.

 

Many of the picnic areas in the Park have been closed and people visiting the Park usually stay but a few hours before leaving since the stench of sulfur is so strong they literally can't stand the smell.

 

The irony of all this is the silence by the news media and our government. Very little information is available from Yellowstone personnel or publications. What mainstream newsstories do appear underscore the likelihood of a massive volcanic eruption. Though geologists publicly admit Yellowstone is "overdue," they have been quoted as stating another massive magma release may not occur for 100,000 or 2 million years. Others close to the story are convinced that a massive eruption is imminent. A source that has demonstrated first-hand knowledge of the park's history and recent geothermal events stated the following: "The American people are not being told that the explosion of this 'super volcano' could happen at any moment. When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within six hundred miles is likely to die. The movement of magma has been detected just three-tenths of a mile below the bulging surface of the ground in Yellowstone raising concerns that this super volcano may erupt soon."

 

 

This report was taken from a series of articles, emails and official information

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031219.htm

[Happy2BMe]

Look closely just to the left and center of the plume - is that a trout?

[stlnative]

Be careful what pictures you post on FR in full... (that is why included both links in my post in 146.) That is why you should just post a link to them.

From the USGS site
Figures and pictures used with permission from "Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks", Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel, Oxford University Press, 2000.

[RightWhale]

The largest shock to occur during this report period was a magnitude 2.2

That's about the shock of 2 fully-loaded watertrucks hitting each other headon at 35 mph if you were standing 200 yards away.

[Jemian]

A Kiss the Ground We Live in California Bump

Oh? You're a troglodyte?

[Happy2BMe]

"The plume from Pinatubo was 26 miles high."

I remember it vividly - it passed over Saudi Arabia just about the same time the smoke from the Kuwait oil fires did.

It was an incredible "other-wordly" cast over that part of the world.

Actually reminded me of the end of the world.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

So let's use some nuclear demolition and vent the pressure gradually. "Lance the boil" as it were.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

From here (scroll down):

[MarkeyD]

Damn! And we just got a new library too.

[blam]

"More on Thera. "

Yup. Thera/Santorini/Akatori...was a biggie. The plume would have had to be 30 miles high to be seen in the Nile Valley of Egypt. ("Staff by day, Torch by night")

BTW, in the 1300's Thera was owned by a Jewish guy named Joseph Nazi.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

This is the park of OLD FAITHFUL. You can practically set your eon by it. I just hope Hillary rushes in to be the first for a photo-op. Oh, the sackcloth and ashes!

Then Ol' Crusty the Pantsuit would get even crustier!

[staytrue]

The inverse square law applies to forces dissapating over a spherical surface like gravity, light, etc.

The blast is likely to dissapate radially outward along a cylindrical surface due to gravity pulling downward on the upper surface. Hence the inverse square law may not apply.

[MarkeyD]

No, they're not. Wonder why.

They're afraid we might all move to France.

[RightWhale]

Probably because of the danger that the ash presented to later scavengers

Could the ash set up like concrete quickly? Seems like Pompeii was not loose dust, but fairly hard material. Shovels wouldn't do a lot of good.

[bootless]

Some expert info, please? And happy new year, C_O. You're one of my Freeper heroes. :-)

[Zack Nguyen]

LOL.

[RightWhale]

we might all move to France

Oh, the horror! LOL

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I got a kick out of this information:

Snake River Plain - Yellowstone Volcanic Province

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From: Wood and Kienle, 1990, Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada: Cambridge University Press, 354p., p.149-150, Contribution by Charles A. Wood.

An 80-kilometer-wide swath of basaltic and rhyolitic volcanism cuts across southeast Idaho for 450 kilometers. This Snake River Plain-Yellowstone (SRPY) volcanic province is the most dynamic area of volcanism in North America. This is not because of abundant historic eruptions -- there have been none -- but rather because of its rapid motion. SRPY is propagating to the northeast at 3.5 centimeters per year (Armstrong, et.al., 1975); it will slice through Montana and be at the Canadian border in approximately 20 million years. If past activity is a guide, SRPY doesn't simply cover terrain with volcanic rocks, but rather the pre-existing ground subsides up to 6 kilometers (Braile, et.al., 1982) between major faults (Sparlin, et.al., 1982) and is further churned up by the transit of magma and the formation of magma chambers. SRPY is a geologic roto-tiller.

According to the radiometric dating of Armstrong, et.al. (1975), SRPY activity began approximately 15 million years ago with silicic volcanism in southern Idaho. A series of now buried rhyolitic calderas formed in a northeast progression, with abundant basaltic volcanism lagging behind by 2-5 million years. Island Park and the two Yellowstone calderas Island Park is now being colonized by the basaltic wave of magma. ...

Oh, OK. 20 Million years from now. Let's see - will humans still even be around by then? ;-)

[aruanan]

One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick.

That's 5.02 inches for just the continental U.S. or 4.2 inches for the entire U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii and possessions.

[WackyKat]

The plume from Pinatubo was 26 miles high

The PBS show Nova did an episode on that eruption-they had a crew with the USGS guys who showed up when it started rumbling and advised the military on when to evacuate.

The video they got of the eruption was awesome

[Centurion2000]

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