Yellowstone Lake Hints at Buildup to Hugh Blast.

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

[Orlando]

Yellowstone National Park,Wyo.-

The mystery of the deep at picturesque Yellowstone Lake is a BULGE that rises 100 feet from the lake floor, stretches the length of seven football fields, and has the potential to explode at any time.

[drypowder]

Boiled trout for the taking?

[_Jim]

"As pressure rises in the chamber, the surface is also rising and there is a measurable increase in heat. But vulcanologists do not know when Yellowstone will blow."

Time to 'drill' and lance this boil?

[King Prout]

but not my chees, dahlink!

[eno_]

Yeah, the problem is hugh.

[Bedford Forrest]

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.

". . . one of the guests on the Coast to Coast AM radio show. . . ." Right. Yeah, that works for me. Where is Art Bell these days, anyhow? I haven't had a full industrial strength tinfoil hat fix ever since he bailed out. That new guy they have on is a wanker, no more greys, alien abductions, Area 51 horrors, gigantic triangle shaped vehicles [600' wingspan] wafting silently through the night sky over downtown Vegas, faces on Mars, I mean Art was connected. Can't remember if Art was into the Yellowstone caldera - I think he did a few pieces on the Long Valley caldera [Mammoth up to Mono Lake, another area which seems to be rising]. From the look of it, Yellowstone seems a lot more active.

[rwfromkansas]

Bring it on.

It is time the world just ends.

[Orlando]

On July 30th, 2003....11 days ago

There was a news report by Carole Cloudwalker from
www.codyenterprise.com , and it was title:

*Bulge in lake worries YNP scientists.*


http://www.codyenterprise.com/articles/2003/07/30/news/export5845.txt


> Beneath the serene surface of yellowstone lake, where
death from hypothermia comes within 30 minutes, seethes a boiling underwater world.

And like a pot too long on the stove, it could boil over,says U.S. Geological Survey Geologist Lisa Morgan,PhD
of Colorado

She and others from the USGS have been studying the hottest
hot spot in the 7,731 Elevation Lake,, a spot which Morgan has termed an "inflated plain". It lies south-southwest of Storm poiint near Mary Bay, in the northern end of the lake..

Morgan, respresenting both the USGS and Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory, is in the process of mapping the lake
floor with seismicc reflection images,etc......

*****Here the key clue *****

She has found that temperatures along inflated plain have been recorded at about 85 degrees 60 feet down,, where the plain bulges up about 100 feet above the lake floor (Park
spokeperson Cheryl Matthews says the lake RARELY reaches MORE THAN 66 degrees at the surface by late summer, and is much colder deeper down)......<

There's more, but I will stop here .....
On July 30th....Water temp was recorded at 85 degrees F
60 feet down......It Rarely gets to 66 degrees, but today
NEW report says........187 degrees, that's 102 degree increase in just 11 days.....

Something is cooking over-there.....by the way what would happen if that lake blows -up ??? any scienists out-there ?

[Fifth Business]

Hugh Blast? Any relation to Hugh Jass?

[Ken H]

Found this:

PROF. MIKE VOORHIES (University of Nebraska): Well I was walking up this gully looking for fossils, the way I'd walked up a thousand gullies before, keeping my eye on the ground looking for pieces of fossils that might have washed down in the rain the previous night and I scrambled up to the top and I saw something that completely astounded me, a sight that no palaeontologist has ever seen.

NARRATOR: It was a sight of sudden, prehistoric disaster. Voorhies's digging revealed the bones of 200 fossilised rhinos, together with the prehistoric skeletons of camels and lizards, horses and turtles. Dating showed they had all died abruptly 10 million years ago.

MIKE VOORHIES: It suddenly dawned on me that this was a scene of a mass catastrophe of a type that I'd never, never encountered before.

NARRATOR: The cause of death, however, remained a mystery. It was not from old age.

MIKE VOORHIES: I could tell by looking at the teeth that these animals had died in their prime. What was astounding was that here were young mothers and their, and their babies, big bull rhinos in the prime of life and here they were dead for no, no apparent reason.

Supervolcanoes

[Judith Anne]

Fascinating, completely interesting!

I have a question: When I boil water on the stove, the hot water at the bottom rises. What is keeping the hot water under the lake from rising? The weight and mass of the cold water? That can't hold forever, can it? What keeps the temperature of the water from evening out, from the hot water below to the frigid water on top?

[Judith Anne]

And this seems like it would have a "pressure cooker" effect--the volume of water expands as it heats, and with the cold water "lid" holding it down, if it keeps heating up, something has to give...

Just a question, hope it's not too silly...

[LasVegasMac]

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

Actually, there were two "mongo blasts" - the first one was by far the biggest one. The second one only destroyed about half of the original crater.

Exact dimensions of the first crater escape me - but it was measured in miles.

Very HUGH blast. Neighboring terra firma - and all life - got real SERIES about it. Especially after they ceased to exist.

It's a hot spot. And it's been on a build up since the last HUGH blow - that would be the second one.

Very, very SERIES - especially if you live within a - oh, say 1000 mile radius.

LVM

[rwfromkansas]

The last time this erupted, it buried places as far east as Nebraska in lots and lots of ash.

The scary thing is, we are 40,000 years overdue for its next eruption.

That said, it would still be 20,000 years from now before it wakes up and decides to erupt. 100 years is nothing....

[rwfromkansas]

could be, not would be

[hometoroost]

I thought Hugh Blast was the world's first human cannonball?

[Orlando]

ummm , you mean 100 miles ?, right ??

[Frank_2001]

Oh, no! Now we have to worry about Global Cooling! Don't get rid of that SUV just yet;)))

[LasVegasMac]

All your bulge are belong to us.

All your YellowStone Park are belong to us. Literally.

But only if you reside in the closest five or six states.

If your east of the Missippi River, the most you should see is only a couple inches of ash. At most. No big deal.

LVM

[rwfromkansas]

Not everything they talk about is real obviously.

But, just because you don't personally see something doesn't mean it isn't real.

I have met some very smart people who have had first-hand battles with entities like demons (respected folks like pastors etc.)

[F.J. Mitchell]

Hugh=huge: I completely missed that.