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

[blam]

"Four earthquakes shook the Jackson, Wyo., area early Wednesday morning, including a magnitude 5.0 earthquake that was the largest ever recorded in Teton County."

Oops! I may need to do some grocery shopping tomorrow, lol

[Joe Hadenuf]

Interesting.....

[Thud]

Note that the Snopes site referred to "29 sizable" eruptions in the past 630,000 years, i.e., the odds (using the same math used by the doomies here) are 29/1 that the next big Yellowstone eruption will be "sizable" instead of "super".

Which omits the umpteen non-sizable eruptions in the same period, as in the odds are umpteen to one that the next Yellowstone eruption will be non-sizable.

I certainly hope that nothing drastic happens, but the odds are comfortable that whatever it is will be of only local biological significance.

[Happy2BMe]

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[Valhall]

I went to the source on Yellowstone. Here is an interview I conducted with the USGS Scientists who work on the Yellowstone project:

http://www.atsnn.com/story/37222.html

[breakem]

I suggest you do a new thread for this. It's buried here on this one.

[ATCNavyRetiree]

Look at it this way...

1) It will kill off a lot of hippies.

2) It will solve the snowmobile debate.

3) It will give us something exciting to concentrate on besides seeing Kerry implode.

[Happy2BMe]

Always a bright to everything I guess (even the end of the world).

LoL!

[TheLion]

Thanks for posting that. You should run a new thread as breakem mentioned. Very good stuff!

[Momaw Nadon]

bttt

January 2004 article.