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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
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Scientists Closely
Monitoring Yellowstone
ProLiberty.com
12-23-3
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- Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity...
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- This report was taken from a series of articles, emails and official information
- http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031219.htm
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: caldera; dantespeak; environment; geothermal; he4; helium4; jellystone; lava; magma; supervolcano; volcano; volcanoes; yellowstone
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To: punster
Thanks!
Fixed your typo:
They might even be more susceptible if they are already hot-blooded hot-mudded.
To: Paul C. Jesup
I don't think starvation is going to be as major a threat as you think. It seems to me that we just won't be able to breathe, and most people will die from suffocation.
To: winker
Coffee Filters are much cheaper than mfg'd dust masks! And with just a pinch of "8 O'Clock", they smell better, too!
If this thing blows, it might not be the end of humanity, but the experiment in Constitutional Republicanism will be dead, and the world will plunge into another dark age, figliterally.
To: grizzfan
It seems to me that we just won't be able to breathe, and most people will die from suffocation.
If where the ash is falling, they was basic (white) filter masks over their mouth and nose to keep the ash out of their lungs when they are outside they will be fine. This worked after Mt St Helens blew, where ash on the towns and cities.
To: Happy2BMe
Could have something to do with the fact that it appears to be a volcanic activity of some kind. But to say more than that without data to back it up is called hyped conjecture.
If it's a volcano about to erupt, fine. I'd like to see the facts instead rhetorical pseudo-science theorizing about how we might all die (read between the lines that someone wants a grant for further study I'm sure). It shouldn't be difficult to do the actual footwork to complete a story and tell us all the signs are present for an eruption or to just admit this is hype to draw attention and unduly scare people out of thier money - er that would be tax dollars for the research grants to study the phenomenon..
Nothing more to see here.. move along.
545
posted on
01/03/2004 4:21:23 PM PST
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Havoc
("Alright; but, that only counts as one..")
To: Havoc
"Nothing more to see here.. move along." Walp, that settles it then.
The 200'F ground temps in a 7 mile x 20 mile area is just plain poppycock.
Admin - close the thread, Havoc has spoken.
546
posted on
01/03/2004 5:05:01 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
To: Happy2BMe
Well, I have family living in Cody, WY. Should this be keeping me up at night, do you think?
To: mewzilla; Havoc
"Should this be keeping me up at night, do you think?" Do you believe there are still aliens in Area 51?
Nah. Just another FR plot . . nothing here to see folks.
Just move along.
548
posted on
01/03/2004 5:09:32 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
To: Happy2BMe
Sigh....
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"(What will the capability of the human rce in 40 years? In 400 yers? In 4000 years?)"
Perhaps the successful operation of a sharp pointy stick? One can only hope! :)
To: Havoc
It cannot be said that a valcano erupted 600,000 plus years ago in the area as there is no objective proof of this. It may be that a valcano erupted in the area at some time in the past; but that is as much as one can truthfully say with any precision. Ahhhhhh, so, you agree with creationists that carbon 14 dating is bunk?
And you insist that the careful analysis of ash falls over a wide area tagged with specific mineral compositions from that caldera . . . that all that analysis as well as the carbon 14 dating of trees killed at the time of the ash falls . . .
You insist that all that is BUNK?
Have you declined God's invitation for some Jr God slot or you're holding out to replace Sagan on TV? I mean, clearly you are sooooooooooooooooo confident you know more than these characters that have studied all these ash falls . . . you must be giving some biggies REAL competition!
551
posted on
01/03/2004 5:38:09 PM PST
by
Quix
(Particularly quite true conspiracies are rarely proven until it's too late to do anything about them)
To: EUPHORIC
From the 1-4" in Spokane, I'd strongly agree with you.
Very sobering.
552
posted on
01/03/2004 5:39:56 PM PST
by
Quix
(Particularly quite true conspiracies are rarely proven until it's too late to do anything about them)
To: Happy2BMe
The 200'F ground temps in a 7 mile x 20 mile area is just plain poppycock. Admin - close the thread, Havoc has spoken.
I agree. Pretty much garbage article.
553
posted on
01/03/2004 5:42:04 PM PST
by
kjam22
To: #3Fan
Especially given that they eat anything that grows or wiggles.
554
posted on
01/03/2004 5:42:31 PM PST
by
Quix
(Particularly quite true conspiracies are rarely proven until it's too late to do anything about them)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
HOW JIAO BU JIAN--LONG TIME NO SEE.
HOPE all is well with you and yours and His blessings 2 U for the New Year.
VIKTOR FRANKL . . . THERE IS NO FREEDOM WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY.
Of course, the opposite is true, too.
555
posted on
01/03/2004 5:47:45 PM PST
by
Quix
(Particularly quite true conspiracies are rarely proven until it's too late to do anything about them)
To: Triple Word Score
every living thing within 600 miles will live forever....Thanks - I live within 500 miles! LOL
556
posted on
01/03/2004 6:12:24 PM PST
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: Boot Hill
It's not expected to blow evenly, if the geography of previous blows is any indication. Illinois is going to be in more trouble than California.
To: Ann Archy
inverse square....that's the dork down the hall at the dorm.
To: Ronaldus Magnus
Your name should be "Radioactivus Magmus."
Any significant sized dig to the magma will result in a volcano... what did you expect. And it may be less than the megablasts which supposedly happened in the past but it will not be a nice little ooze. You keep on ignoring that a nuclear blast will create products that will get blasted forth by the volcano, making it much worse than either the blast or the volcano by itself. Imagine Chernobyl magnified by a factor of 1000. I'd almost sooner get rained on by the megablast, it would be over quicker with less torture.
iow, Why have the hots for nuclear if a conventional dig would do. Baffles me.
To: drlevy88
He's a guy. We like nukes. No one knows why...
560
posted on
01/03/2004 7:01:05 PM PST
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null and void
(It's a guy thing, we don't understand it either...)
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