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Yellowstone's Explosive Secret
CBSNEWS.com ^
| Tuesday, March 23, 2004
| Sandra Hughes
Posted on 03/24/2004 3:14:50 PM PST by Momaw Nadon
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To: Momaw Nadon
It's Bush's fault.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:16:18 PM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
To: Momaw Nadon
Old Faithful Geyser erupts in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Photo: AP)
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:17:01 PM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
(Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Algore invented it
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:18:46 PM PST
by
SZonian
(The truth hurts, so bury it! (Liberal tagline))
To: SZonian
I knew it!
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:27:22 PM PST
by
DooDahhhh
To: Momaw Nadon
And here I thought they meant beans and campfires.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:30:52 PM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: DooDahhhh
Happened 13,800 years ago....Do they have a newspaper or something?? Was it a Thursday? Geez...
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:31:51 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Momaw Nadon
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:32:53 PM PST
by
null and void
(Don't stand idly by and watch your country commit Hairy Kerry!)
To: Sacajaweau
Exactly. Of course they also know that there was water in Mars ...
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:41:37 PM PST
by
Truth666
To: So Cal Rocket
It's Bush's fault. Women and minorities hit hardest.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:43:12 PM PST
by
kennedy
To: Truth666
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:45:11 PM PST
by
Truth666
To: Truth666
Real nice. They make it sound like if it blows, every one needs to back up 5 miles.
If it blows, everyone needs to back up at least half the continent.
As the links above show, the Yellowstone CALDERA is a SUPERVOLCANO and if it blows, the best bet will be to BE ON MARS.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:50:15 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(The LINE has been drawn. While the narrow minded see a line, the rest see a circle.)
To: Momaw Nadon
BOO!
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:52:49 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Momaw Nadon
This is not a new story, though it may have taken CBS this long to get to it. We took our family out to Yellowstone last summer, and there were concerns about this bulge back then! The temperature of the water in parts of Yellowstone Lake were much higher than normal. Frankly I was nervous the whole time we were there!
A HUGH part of the park sits on top of a caldera, and when that thing blows, it will be BAD NEWS for the western part of the US, and not so good news for us in the East either. The map of the park has the caldera boundaries clearly marked, and you can see the differences in vegetation from inside and outside the lines. The stuff on top of the caldera is sparse and scrubby, while outside the lines it is green and lush.
It is really a gorgeous place, and we had a great time.
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posted on
03/24/2004 4:15:23 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: kennedy
>It's Bush's fault.
>>Women and minorities hit hardest.
Yellowstone will stay
just fine if everyone goes
to see The Passion.
To: Momaw Nadon
Couldn't this be used for geothermal power generation. Seems to me like we have the makings of energy independency right in a national park. ??
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posted on
03/24/2004 4:19:33 PM PST
by
JmyBryan
To: kennedy
We all know that Bush is keeping the upcoming eruption a secret until election day to corner the sympathy vote and steal the election from Kerry.
I know this cause the democrats told me so.
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posted on
03/24/2004 4:20:19 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(So you're a feminist - isn't that cute!)
To: SuziQ
>A HUGH part of the park sits on top of a caldera, and when that thing blows, it will be BAD NEWS for the western part of the US, and not so good news for us in the East either.
Sounds series. Let's hope
all the moose don't freak out and
start biting people . . .
To: SuziQ
I was nervous the whole time we were there! Last time I was at Yellowstone there was a massive earthquake right after I left. I deny all responsibility, but I also haven't been back and don't intend to go back.
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posted on
03/24/2004 4:23:27 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: UCANSEE2
Real nice. They make it sound like if it blows, every one needs to back up 5 miles.If it blows, everyone needs to back up at least half the continent.
No, like most of the clueless hypemongers that totally misunderstand this story, you fail to understand that there's a vast difference between the underwater lake dome exploding, and the caldera exploding, and have confused the two.
Calderas have a WIDE VARIETY of eruption modes. For every time an entire caldera explodes, there will be hundreds or thousands of small cinder cone eruptions, bursts in geyser activity, phreatic explosions, lava flows, etc. over tens of thousands of years.
The bulge in the lake exploding IS NOT THE ENTIRE CALDERA exploding.
If the bulge in the lake explodes it's no danger to anyone that isn't in the park near the lake. And it won't trigger the caldera exploding or really be any sort of sign the caldera might explode.
And caldera explosions are so rare on the grand scheme of geological things to worry about in the US it's very low on the list....a collapse of Mt. Rainer, the Hayward fault going in Oakland and Berkeley, a hidden thrust fault in LA going, New Madrid...those are all things that realistically could happen in someone's lifetime.
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posted on
03/24/2004 4:25:10 PM PST
by
John H K
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