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Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery (Bolivia)
Our Amazing Planet ^
| 10/19/11
| Anrea Mustain
Posted on 10/21/2011 5:12:18 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Should anyone ever decide to make a show called "CSI: Geology," a group of scientists studying a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano have got the perfect storyline. Several universities are essentially working as geological detectives, using a suite of tools to piece together the restive peak's past in order to understand what it is doing now, and better diagnose what may lie ahead.
It's a mystery they've yet to solve.
Uturuncu is a nearly 20,000-foot-high (6,000 meters) volcano in southwest Bolivia. Scientists recently discovered the volcano is inflating with astonishing speed.
"I call this 'volcano forensics,' because we're using so many different techniques to understand this phenomenon," said Oregon State University professor Shan de Silva, a volcanologist on the research team. [See images of the inflating volcano here.]
(Excerpt) Read more at ouramazingplanet.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolivia; catastrophism; uturuncu; volcanoes
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Close to dormant volcanoes like Nabro in Africa that erupted earlier this year....This one Uturuncu bears some watching.
To: winoneforthegipper
if it keeps inflating wouldn’t it explode?
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:16:33 AM PDT
by
Netizen
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To: winoneforthegipper
"Scientists recently discovered the volcano is inflating with astonishing speed."At the astonishing speed of 0.4 - 0.8 inches per year...
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:19:16 AM PDT
by
Redbob
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To: winoneforthegipper
"Scientists recently discovered the volcano is inflating with astonishing speed."At the astonishing speed of 0.4 - 0.8 inches per year...
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:19:16 AM PDT
by
Redbob
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To: Errant
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:19:58 AM PDT
by
winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: Redbob
Though thought to be dead...it’s a big boy....that’s a lot of magma intrusion.
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:23:03 AM PDT
by
winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: Redbob
Mt. St. Helens north face was expanding up to 50 ft./day (IIRC) right before the 1980 eruption. That’s rather more impressive.
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:25:52 AM PDT
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Liberty1970
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To: Netizen
Well unless a dermatologist lances it....lol
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:26:08 AM PDT
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winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: Liberty1970
It is....but this is a loading of a thought to even be extinct volcano.
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:30:47 AM PDT
by
winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: winoneforthegipper
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:37:56 AM PDT
by
winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: winoneforthegipper
Which volcano formed right in the middle of a battlefield in WW2 Italy? That wasn’t Vesuvius, was it?
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:47:10 AM PDT
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WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: WKUHilltopper
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10/21/2011 5:53:12 AM PDT
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winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: winoneforthegipper
Article says its in an area of densely packed super volcanoes. Isn’t Yellowstone also rising?
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posted on
10/21/2011 5:54:49 AM PDT
by
wiggen
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To: wiggen
It was increasing steadily....but over the last year or so not so much.
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posted on
10/21/2011 6:01:30 AM PDT
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winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: WKUHilltopper
To: Liberty1970
Visited Mt. St. Helens with the wife in September. Still very impressive as are the aftereffects which are visible on the road leading to the main observation point.
To: Deaf Smith
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10/21/2011 8:35:03 AM PDT
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Thanks winoneforthegipper.
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