[Happy2BMe]

Figures and pictures used with permission from "Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park", Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Figure 1. Path of the Yellowstone hotspot. Yellow and orange ovals show volcanic centers where the hotspot produced one or more caldera eruptions- essentially "ancient Yellowstones"- during the time periods indicated. As North America drifted southwest over the hotspot, the volcanism progressed northeast, beginning in northern Nevada and southeast Oregon 16.5 million years ago and reaching Yellowstone National Park 2 million years ago. A bow-wave or parabola-shaped zone of mountains (browns and tans) and earthquakes (red dots) surrounds the low elevations (greens) of the seismically quiet Snake River Plain. The greater Yellowstone "geoecosystem" is outlined in blue. Faults are in black.

[#3Fan]

Excellent picture!

[possible]

Caldera? Didn't they change their name to S.C.O. Are they about to explode?

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[Robert A Cook PE]

Good graphics, thank you.

That's the reason they predict it's overdue: the next blast should have already occurred.

But will it begin tommorrow, has it already started to "blow" - but won't release until 4-40-400-4000 years from now?

They don't knwo - but "aren't covering it up" - it's regularly reported on Discover, national geographic specials, and Edu. channels.

Just not in the lamestream media press corpse yet, since it can't be blamed on Bush.