Posted on 12/16/2009 12:17:19 PM PST by george76
University of Utah scientists say seismic images of the plumbing feeding the Yellowstone supervolcano show a magma plume much larger than previously thought.
Scientists say they've imaged a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup.
A related University of Utah study used gravity measurements to indicate the banana-shaped magma chamber of hot and molten rock a few miles beneath Yellowstone is 20 percent larger than previously believed, so a future cataclysmic eruption could be even larger than projected.
The studies, led by Professor Robert Smith, suggest the same "hotspot" that feeds Yellowstone volcanism also triggered the Columbia River "flood basalts" that buried parts of Oregon, Washington state and Idaho with lava starting 17 million years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Not for a couple hundred years. Then it would come back.
I think we should treat this like the dreaded Ozone Hole.
Let’s get msm to go all splodynanas over this and meantime we’ll hammer Obama and Congress to DO SOMETHING or we’ll all be doomed!
LOL! Reminds of when one of my co-workers put a condom on a secretary’s three pronged cactus plant on her desk. Fortunately for him she thought it was funny. For even more fun, put a condom on someone’s exhaust pipe.
Great! More greenhouse gasses!!
Not if, but when...
Lots of ash
everywhere
THIS is why we need healthcare reform......
Some sort of magma tax is required...
thanks
Interesting to see how the lake has been pushed up by the magma bubble, then flooding a forest on one side and revealing an old boat on the other tilted side.
Night Hides Not ~ December 2012, perhaps?
Your thought for the day:
About a month and a half after the election.
What do you suppose a lame duck psychopathic narcissist with his finger on The Button would do to a people who world that rejected him?
—now that H1N1 has proven a bust, along with bird flu, if the magma plume doesn’t blow in 2012, we can go back to worrying about the next asteroid collision—
Another interesting link on the subject of Yellowstone's massive case of GERD...
Yellowstone's Plumbing Reveals Plume of Hot and Molten Rock 410 Miles Deep
No, but global cooling very well might be.
Dang! We’ve only got about a thousand years before we have to get our affairs in order. Write wills, stock up on canned goods, store water in Clorox bottles, etc.
Good luck everyone, and Merry Christmas! :-)
Should Yellowstone start trading carbon credits now so they will be carbon neutral by the time it erupts?
Similar to healthcare...pay the taxes for years before the benefits (well there really aren’t any benefits are there?)
The CO2mmunists worry about control and taxation meanwhile all that science power isn’t being used for real threats to our existence.
For even more fun, put a POTATO IN someones exhaust pipe!...................
Dumb question, but isn’t there enough energy under Yellowstown to power everything on the planet for the next hundred years?
No carbon emissions?
What am I missing?
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