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Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.
Idaho Observer ^

Posted on 01/01/2004 8:33:27 PM PST by Happy2BMe

Scientists Closely
Monitoring Yellowstone

ProLiberty.com
12-23-3
 
Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity...
 
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park area has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago making the next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that, in parts of Yellowstone, the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century.
 
In July, 2003, Yellowstone Park rangers closed the entire Norris Geyser Basin because of deformation of the land and excessive high ground temperatures. There is an area that is 28 miles long by 7 miles wide that has bulged upward over five inches since 1996, and this year the ground temperature on that bulge has reached over 200 degrees (measured one inch below ground level).
 
There was no choice but to close off the entire area. Everything in this area is dying: The trees, flowers, grass and shrubs. A dead zone is developing and spreading outward. The animals are literally migrating out of the park.
 
Then during the last part of July one of the Park geologists discovered a huge bulge at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The bulge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake and the water temperature at the surface of the bulge has reached 88 degrees and is still rising.
 
Keep in mind that Yellowstone Lake is a high mountain lake with very cold water temperatures. The Lake is now closed to the public. It is filled with dead fish floating everywhere. The same is true of the Yellowstone river and most of the other streams in the Park. Dead and dying fish are filling the water everywhere.
 
Many of the picnic areas in the Park have been closed and people visiting the Park usually stay but a few hours before leaving since the stench of sulfur is so strong they literally can't stand the smell.
 
The irony of all this is the silence by the news media and our government. Very little information is available from Yellowstone personnel or publications. What mainstream newsstories do appear underscore the likelihood of a massive volcanic eruption. Though geologists publicly admit Yellowstone is "overdue," they have been quoted as stating another massive magma release may not occur for 100,000 or 2 million years. Others close to the story are convinced that a massive eruption is imminent. A source that has demonstrated first-hand knowledge of the park's history and recent geothermal events stated the following: "The American people are not being told that the explosion of this 'super volcano' could happen at any moment. When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within six hundred miles is likely to die. The movement of magma has been detected just three-tenths of a mile below the bulging surface of the ground in Yellowstone raising concerns that this super volcano may erupt soon."
 
 
This report was taken from a series of articles, emails and official information
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031219.htm


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: caldera; dantespeak; environment; geothermal; he4; helium4; jellystone; lava; magma; supervolcano; volcano; volcanoes; yellowstone
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To: Happy2BMe
Why can't we just import them?

Volcano engineers? Sure, why not?

481 posted on 01/02/2004 5:40:02 PM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: CWOJackson
Him, and that naughty Military-Industrial Complex® and their sinister experiments with extremely low frequency elecronmagnetic waves. Just like how they caused the Iran earthquake. (/DU)
482 posted on 01/02/2004 5:47:00 PM PST by stands2reason ("Dean is God's reward to Mr. Bush for doing the right thing in the war on terror." Dick Morris)
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To: rwfromkansas
I feel the same way about it, keep an open mind. Part of the documentary was about trying to find out events before hand instead of after the fact, which entails knowing what to type in and then finding the keywords surrounding it.

That is how they came up with astroid in 2012, when they typed in Los Angeles and earthquake they came up with the North Ridge quake and then another bigger one in 2010.
483 posted on 01/02/2004 5:54:34 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: Snowy
LOL clever ;)
484 posted on 01/02/2004 6:13:52 PM PST by Libertina (If it moves, tax it. If it doesn't move it's a sitting duck - tax it TWICE!)
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To: Kevin Curry; Sabertooth
A surface blast is still no more than a half-mile-1 mile deep hole in the ground.

A long ways, but would it actually release pressure "safely" by destroying a natural park, or only delay it a few months or a few years, or release too much pressure prematurely?

The problem is predicting what happens if you vent the pressure, but release so much that catastrophe ensues anyway.

If you knew that Mt St Helens and Pinatubo were going to blow, but you couldn't prevent it, would you want to accelerate their schedule, or delay their schedule?
485 posted on 01/02/2004 6:18:17 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Granited.

Soil is enriched after the blow, at least downwind.

But only after the devastation. How many years of ash will it be before Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, OK, and Nebraska wheat, corn, and soy bean fields are back at full production?
486 posted on 01/02/2004 6:22:01 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
I don't get where this 600,000 year interval comes from. Iirc the one before the last one was 2 million years ago. That'd put the current interval at 1.4 million years.
487 posted on 01/02/2004 6:49:24 PM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: MissAmericanPie
You do realize the Mayan calendar 'ends' in 2012 because after then it is no longer accurate? The calendar does not take into account astronomical precession. 2012 is the last year it will be accurate to the day. After that it'll be off by a day. They fully realized this and even performed sacrifices in hopes of preventing it. As for their 'end of the world' calculations they were a bit off. That occured over 400 years ago with the arrival of the Conquistadores.
488 posted on 01/02/2004 6:59:21 PM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Apparently, an enormous magma chamber (fed by a plume rising from deep within the earth) lies about 8000 meters beneath the surface of the park. In one sense that seems almost impossibly close to the surface. On the other hand, it represents approximately the same vertical distance as the summit of Mt McKinley from sea level. That's a lot of earth and stone. But what a pressure cooker! When and if it does break loose, it'll push that earth and stone skyward with almost unimaginable catastrophic force.

I don't believe there is an alternative to allowing nature to take its cataclysmic course. There would almost surely be precursor signs building to a major eruption. I suspect there would be a huge migration to the north and south. Mexican illegal aliens might even stop coming into the US for awhile.

There have been about 30 Pinatubo scale-eruptions at Yellowstone in the past 600 thousand years as well. Chances are much more likely we'd see one of those lesser blowups in our lifetimes.

489 posted on 01/02/2004 7:00:27 PM PST by Kevin Curry ("When I was growing, we didn't even treat the servants like servants." Andree Dean, Howie's mom)
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To: Happy2BMe
bump
490 posted on 01/02/2004 7:13:38 PM PST by VOA
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To: Justa
I understand they are taking the last few "average" intervals:

Roughly: 13 million, 10 million, ..... Keep tracking them closer and closer: 2.1 million, 1.3 million, 0.6 million....

On average, the series indicates the next one "should have" been here several thousand years ago. It's overdue.
491 posted on 01/02/2004 7:22:09 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
But only after the devastation. How many years of ash will it be before Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, OK, and Nebraska wheat, corn, and soy bean fields are back at full production?

I'd say two years in starting back to production in the Great Plains after the event.

I'd say eight to ten years after the event until back to close to full production.

I figure an event like this to the Great Plains would be like the 1930's dust-bowl times ten.

492 posted on 01/02/2004 7:31:17 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Kevin Curry
There have been about 30 Pinatubo scale-eruptions at Yellowstone in the past 600 thousand years as well. Chances are much more likely we'd see one of those lesser blowups in our lifetimes.

When, where and how powerful was the Pinatubo eruption?

493 posted on 01/02/2004 7:33:36 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
YES!...I am sorry I didn't reply to all who answered my plea!!! Thanks for reminding me....FreeRepublicans have ALL the answers!
494 posted on 01/02/2004 7:36:46 PM PST by Ann Archy
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To: Justa
No I didn't know that. I don't hold with the end of the world on 2012. Even if we had an astroid impact it wouldn't be a world killer. I do know if L.A. has a major quake in 2010 I will be revisting the Bible Codes.=o)

From what I can glean from Revelation man has progressed to the point of cloning at the time of the anti-Christ, or being able to create a living being, image that lives, something along those lines, and we are no where near being able to do that yet. So I feel pretty safe in moving that date back at least a few years.
495 posted on 01/02/2004 7:38:34 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: Paul C. Jesup; Sabertooth
Good estimate.

And, that's only a guess. We really don't know.

Unlike oil pipes, we really don't know if we could "cap" the flow once the crust is weakened.

A small rockslide was all that triggered the Mt St Helen's eruption.... "Pipes" can't hold magma, and NOTHING we build (now!!!! - The FUTURE capability of our engineers is UNKNOWN!!!) could restrain cubic miles of rising hot magma.

How do you "plug" something that can melt rock, and lift mountains?

Pile more mountains on top of it? It's already lifting Mt McKinley high piles of rock and granite.
496 posted on 01/02/2004 7:43:58 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: MissAmericanPie
2-4 years.
497 posted on 01/02/2004 7:44:29 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Pinatubo erupted in June 1991. It is located on the Phillipine Island of Luzon (just north of Manila and Clark Air Base). It was about ten times more powerful than Mt. St Helens. It spread sufficient dust and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cause drop in global temperatures of about a half a degree centigrade for two years. I still recall the very vivid red sunsets of that period.
498 posted on 01/02/2004 8:03:28 PM PST by Kevin Curry ("When I was growing, we didn't even treat the servants like servants." Andree Dean, Howie's mom)
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To: Kevin Curry
"I still recall the very vivid red sunsets of that period."

In the middle east, Pinatubo dust coming over merged with the Kuwaiti oil fire smoke to creat a "hell on earth" otherwordly feeling.

It lasted for three days.

499 posted on 01/02/2004 8:06:00 PM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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To: Quix
Make a prediction based on these Codes and give a date. Be specific. Remember, "by their fruits shall ye know them."

Otherwise you are talking utter horse $#!t, and blasphemy besides.

-ccm

500 posted on 01/02/2004 8:06:01 PM PST by ccmay
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