People don't realize that one of thinnest known spots of the Earth's crust is in Yellowstone. Pretty much everywhere else the crust is several factors of miles if not order of magnitude of miles deep. However in Yellowstone it is less than a quarter mile thick. It has been determined that ash deposits from the last eruption of the Yellowstone volcano and are indisputably chemically and geologically linked to the Yellowstone eruption have been found on the eastern seaboard (like S.C. & Georgia) with layer thickness of tens of feet.
How's you like them apples?
Raygun: You said,"Actually, this post is a little bizarre. I was just thinking about this in response to some other post recently.
You weren't on this post, Superplumes Rumble Inside Earth, by chance were you?
Interesting apples; I wonder what the effect of a nuke detonated in the ground in Yellowstone would do.
Expose the magma to air and what would the overall effect be for the US?
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