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Yellowstone goes, we all go
Star-Tribune ^ | January 7, 2009 | THOMAS JAMES BLEMING

Posted on 01/12/2009 5:20:12 PM PST by george76

So Yellowstone, the super volcano, is again rumbling? Mercury has been detected throughout the national park (not a good sign) for quite sometime and along with it the ground under Yellowstone Lake is rising.

More than 250 earthquakes reported during a 24-hour period ...

Scientists monitoring Yellowstone have stated that it has entered into what they have described as a "red zone."

Remember Mount St. Helens? The feds warned folks in the region around the mountain to vacate, and most did. Some (a few) didn't.

It's been reported that the feds will issue a vacate order to the inhabitants of Wyoming, if time allows, for such a mass exodus ...

The Yellowstone Caldera is linked to a massive complex of subterranean tunnels that are miles deep in the earth, and which are connected to other volcanic zones such as Mount Shasta in California, Mount Rainier in Washington state and the volcanic caldera located in Bend, Ore., all of which are at this very moment showing signs of seismic activity similar to what Yellowstone is experiencing, that has many in the scientific community pondering as to what it all means.

(Excerpt) Read more at trib.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Oregon; US: Washington; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: caldera; catastrophism; doomed; earthquake; earthquakes; supervolcano; usgs; volcano; yellowstone
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To: CindyDawg

They have Twinkies. And I think the shelf life of them is measured in centuries.


121 posted on 01/12/2009 9:37:43 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: MHGinTN
If my old memory serves, a super eruption has occurred at approx every 600 million years. WOW you are older than I thought. Why do they assume a super eruption instead of a good show like the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii?
122 posted on 01/12/2009 9:39:35 PM PST by ThomasThomas ( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
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To: ThomasThomas
Just timing I guess. The eruption I mean. The system is overdue for a biggie, but I don't know that the seismologists can predict any more than just an eruption, not differentiating between a regular blow and a super eruption. [I'm not quite old enough to remeber the last major eruption at Yellowstone. Wasn't called that back then anyway. Something like Ungahootapuff, but my memory might be fading. ;^)]
123 posted on 01/12/2009 9:44:21 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: ThomasThomas

Because it has erupted as a supervolcano previously. Look up the Lake Toba eruption 75,000 years or so ago.

Its history is of eruptions larger than any in recorded history. Ejecting a few thousand cubic kilometers of material not to mention dioxides of sulfur.


124 posted on 01/12/2009 9:45:08 PM PST by Pelagius of Asturias
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Bookmarky so I can find this tomorrow.

If there is a tomorrow............

125 posted on 01/12/2009 9:53:42 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (PA is a banana republic without the great weather to actually grow bananas.)
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To: IronJack

WHAT “defiance”? I just read an article on yet another Fascist regulation put in place by Bush, which Obama will have a grand time enforcing—the CPSC requirement for prohibitively expensive testing of all items sold for children. It is going to shut down Goodwill and all other thrift stores, and lots of home-based businesses. A dream come true for big corporations and Fascists.

Bush is a Fascist. McCain is a Fascist. True, Obama will be MORE Fascist.

I don’t care if Yellowstone blows. I’d rather see the U.S. destroyed by an Act of God than see it turn into the rotting corpse of a Republic, which is what is happening already.


126 posted on 01/12/2009 10:55:57 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: ThomasThomas; All

Why do they assume a super eruption instead of a good show like...Hawaii?”

The size and style of an eruption is affected by a number of things: the size, shape and depth of the magma chamber; the chemical nature and gas content of the magma; are some of the factors.

The Hawaii volcanos are basalt that seems to melt a flow rather rapidly. Yellowstone is in mid-continent which would be a more granite type rock which would behave differently than basalt. Although Y has had some eruptions that were not super eruptions, I don’t think they have been of the flowing type you find in Hawaii.

Also the 600,000 figure is an approximation with a past variation of 100 to 200 thousand years.


127 posted on 01/12/2009 11:52:28 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: george76

Now THAT will change the Earth’s climate. Not for the better either.


128 posted on 01/12/2009 11:56:31 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: mountn man

Surely the Asgard will save us?


129 posted on 01/13/2009 12:00:43 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: La Enchiladita
Like the Pakistani/Afghani guy said in the Man Who Would Be King : "Enemies all around".
130 posted on 01/13/2009 2:35:31 AM PST by fewz (Rigorous argument from inapplicable assumptions produces the worldÂ’s most durable nonsense.)
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To: All

Oh for heavens sakey Yall.

FR has been posting UFO/Yellowstone stories multiple and daily the last month.

What gives?

Is this stress relief for the upcoming new POTUS and the uncertainty of our Economy 09?


131 posted on 01/13/2009 2:46:00 AM PST by Global2010 (God Will see us through. Persevere)
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To: george76

Rove, you magnificent bastard.


132 posted on 01/13/2009 2:50:58 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Army Air Corps
I had cause to look up the Landmaster on a post at Free Dominion a while ago:

link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/

One has survived- interestingly, the thing could actually be driven. I had always wondered if it was merely a combination of props and models.

133 posted on 01/13/2009 4:59:23 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Pelagius of Asturias
Toba is pretty cool if you think about it. It occurred during the last ice age and the results were it took hominids down to only a few thousand members. If you think about it along with the climate at the time it explains the 'out of Africa' model of hominid development. Equatorial Africa would be one of the few places on earth not frozen over following Toba's eruption during the last ice age.

Maybe it's not that Africa is the source of all hominid development, just that during periodic global climate events it's the only place where hominids survived. Imo this explain why many hominid species suddenly died out. They weren't in a sustainable environment during a cataclysmic event.

134 posted on 01/13/2009 5:16:59 AM PST by Justa (The media lied while Americans died.)
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To: Justa; Global2010; SunkenCiv; All

Re multiple FR posts, and Toba eruption

Last week there was an increase in strength and frequency of Yellowstone earthquakes, it seems to have subsided now, See Comment 29 for a daily updated Y seismic map. The article posted was not an article at all, it was a letter to the editor. Mr. Bleaming is an alarmist with faulty “facts” If you go to the Tribune post there are a number of comments, and one by Cindy, I think it was, was intelligent and informative.

Toba was a major calamity. It left a caldera that is 18 miles by 65 miles. Even bigger than the most recent major Yellowstone caldera. It caused a major temperature downturn in the past Ice Age and I like Justa’s conjecture. One interesting note: I was checking out the “Hobbit” people on Flores Island, and I think they mentioned remains that were as old or older than the 74KYA Toba explosion. Worth more investigation on this.


135 posted on 01/13/2009 1:13:28 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: mountn man
Or falls on my head! Thanks for the laugh.

The graphic in the previous post is kind of scary!

136 posted on 01/13/2009 1:33:35 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: Glacier Honey

I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up!


137 posted on 01/13/2009 1:36:06 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: rmlew

I can fully understand that. I don’t have allergies, but I’m a whole lot closer to Wyoming than you are. I may develope some digging out from under the ash if I survive the blast to start with! Hope this is all speculation and I check out before the big bang.


138 posted on 01/13/2009 1:39:32 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: Sunshine Sister
Yellow Stone was one of the must see places for me in this life time. My husband and I visited and just loved the place. The boiling pots, buffalo, eagles, geysers and boiling mud pots. OMG it was wonderful.

Yes it is - it's gorgeous. I've been there twice - once when I was a kid and the last time in 1991. Drove all the way out there and back from Iowa and camped in tents the whole way, including in the park itself. Woke up one morning in Yellowstone, unzipped my tent and found a huge Bison standing three feet away just grazing on grass. The whole campground had Bison everywhere, wandering around like nothing was going on.

The one thing I don't miss is the sulfur smell around the mud pots and geysers. That stuff can gag a maggot.
139 posted on 01/13/2009 1:47:14 PM PST by reagan_fanatic ("You got that, camera guy?")
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To: reagan_fanatic
The one thing I don't miss is the sulfur smell around the mud pots and geysers. That stuff can gag a maggot.

Good, maybe Obama will go and gag.

140 posted on 01/13/2009 2:16:23 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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