Yellowstone Lake Hints at Buildup to Hugh Blast.

Denver Post ^ | August. 10th, 2003 | Diedtra Henderson, Science writer

[FreedomPoster]

>>Danger at Yellowstone: Women, minorities are likeliest victims.

You're forgetting the CHILLruns!

[Ken H]

The Yellostone Basin was created by a massive blast thousands of years ago ... if memory serves me -

That's a great memory! :)

I saw the story about that geologist on the Discovery Channel. I'm thinking he's from the U of Nebraska. Anyway, it's a fascinating story.

[SC Swamp Fox]

At what temperature would the water boil at a depth of 65 feet? Either way, it wouldn't be the first boiling lake in Yellowstone.

[John H K]

A report by the BBC Two programme Horizon on one supervolcano, at Yellowstone national park in the US, says it is overdue for an eruption.
Yellowstone has gone off roughly once every 600,000 years. Its last eruption was 640,000 years ago.
The mass media is pretty much guaranteed to botch or mischaracterize every single science story they do, since journalists now go to college and study journalism, therby guaranteeing they know absolutely nothing about anything.

Yellowstone ALSO has gone over a million years between caldera-forming blasts, hence the term "overdue" is really not correct.

It could theoretically go next year but given the long time between them and the wide variance in how often they happen the chance it happening in the lifetime of anyone reading this thread is vanishingly small.

Of course, this bulge in the lake could explode at any time, or not for 200 years, and like I said it has NOTHING to do with a caldera blast or anything; it would be thousands of times smaller.

[biggerten]

At that depth, the pressure is about triple what it is at the surface. That would mean the boiling point would be about 275F.

That's not exact, because I've not taken into account Yellowstone's hieght above sea level, for example, and there are other factors. But it's good enough for the girls I go out with.

[jdege]

The problem is that Yellowstone sits over a supercaldera.

If the whole thing goes, it's not going to be something mild like Krakatoa:

http://www.yellowstonetreasures.com/nugget16.htm

[F.J. Mitchell]

It can only be "series" if it turns into a chain reaction of explosion after explosion. Any such explosion would be "serious", but a "series" of explosions would be extremely "serious".

Sorry folks but seeing "series" used in lieu of "serious" is driving me mad.

[redheadtoo]

I heard one of the guests on the Coast to Coast AM radio show say that if Yellowstone blows it could trigger a chain reaction causing all the volcanos in the United States to erupt. He said that there are about 30 volcanos in the lower 48 states.

[Husker24]

You would think that if it blew, it would actually relieve the pressure from other volcanoes.

[King Prout]

but are the moose in danger?

[Husker24]

I listened to that Coast to Coast AM radio show, untill one time they started talking about "shadow people", then I realised what a load of crap it was.

[microgood]

[The Old Hoosier]

Sorry folks but seeing "series" used in lieu of "serious" is driving me mad.

You can't be series.

[stboz]

What about Boris and Natasha?

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! Series as a heart attack.

[King Prout]

I don't know if I care about them - they keep stealing my cheese

[redheadtoo]

I realised what a load of crap it was.

I agree that most of it is crap and the more idiotic the guest is the more impressive his academic credentials are.

It is, however, entertaining and occasionally they have a guest on who I can respect.

[_Jim]

If the temperature increases another 25°, the lake will start to boil.

ONLY if that 'heated water' reaches the surface (you see, the water 'at depth' under pressure boils at a *higher* temperture than it would at the surface where it sees only atmosphereic temperature ...).

[stboz]

Hooboy! All your moose and squirrel belong to us!