Yellowstone's Plumbing Reveals Plume of Hot and Molten Rock 410 Miles Deep

ScienceDaily ^ | Dec 14, 2009

[djf]

even more at link...

[djf]

related...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010135468_volcano26m.html

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[Rummyfan]

Is it a million degrees fahrenheit?

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Many, many years ago while in college I took a Geology Class and my professor spent the entire 3 months on the topic of the Yellowstone Caldera, its existence and what we knew about the past eruptions.

I basically came away from that class with the understanding that if historical data of past eruptions are to be accepted, at this point historically speaking, we are more or less living on borrowed time...

[garyb]

Not to worry, COP15 will ban the emissions of magma.

[ElkGroveDan]

Well then I’m glad I left Bozeman back in 86.

[djf]

I know a little about it, not much, but a little, and from what I know I would agree.

But remember, if we say “soon” in geologic time measure, we could easily be talking 100,000 years or more.

The interesting part of all this is that it runs contrary to the prevalent idea in tectonics. Tectonics tells us that all these volcanos are basically separate entities and an eruption or quake at one can’t possibly have an effect on another.

They seem to be finding this is not true. That in fact many of them MIGHT be connected. As many FReepers have maintained in the past.

[Outlaw Woman]

LOL! poor poor delusional algore

[Leisler]

Wouldn’t if Yellowstone park erupted cataclysmically, sending a nighttime making plume over most of the Mid West and East Coast...wouldn’t that event violate various air pollution laws?

Who can we sue?

[cpdiii]

I basically came away from that class with the understanding that if historical data of past eruptions are to be accepted, at this point historically speaking, we are more or less living on borrowed time...

correct

[Ken H]

the banana-shaped magma chamber of hot and molten rock...

Sounds like a bad romance novel!

[djf]

Lol!

Some dude without a shirt having his way with a spicy number on the cover, eh?

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve read about a Toba supervolcano eruption that almost wiped out humans 70,000 years ago. Only a few thousand survived, but granted it was a population of only a few million hunder-gatherers. The Yellowstone supervolcano is expected to be about twice as powerful as the Toba one with its next eruption, which is overdue.

[bd476]

Thanks for the ping to this very interesting article, DJF.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Locations over time.

[Right Wing Assault]

We would have to pay reparations to the world if it blows. We should quick sell it to China.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

[bd476]

Thanks again for the Ping, DJF.

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[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping bd476.