Yellowstone "Bulge"
Posted on 03/14/2007 1:49:40 PM PDT by edcoil
Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings
Steam rises from hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, in a 2002 file photo.
Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent.
One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park, which spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
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I'd be more worried if it suddenly got real quiet....
In fact, we are 20 years closer than we were in 1987.
I heard the Yellowstone Caldera had something to do with Anna Nicole's death.
You are very preceptive.
Well, darn it, I'm drinking the good stuff from now on.
Researchers found that just the opposite is happening with Jackson Hole — the valley below the Teton. The valley is rising up slowly and the mountains are dropping down.
What the researchers think is happening, on a short-term basis at least, is that the bulging Yellowstone hotspot north of the Tetons is pushing against the north edge of Jackson Hole and jamming it against the mountains.
(This is also causing the southwest part of the Yellowstone plateau, under the hotspot, to slide downhill at a rate of one-sixth of an inch each year.)
"The textbook model for a normal fault is not what's happening at the Teton fault," Smith said. "The mountains are going down relative to the valley going up. That's a total surprise."
This motion, according to researchers, is also expected to produce bigger quakes, confusing the picture of how earthquakes occur in that area.
Hey, St. Martin Luther King predicted this more than 40 years ago in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech:
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
Of course, he lifted the words from the Prophet Isaiah, see chapter 40, verse 4, written some 2700 years earlier.
I think Dan is being sarcastic as in everyday we are closer to our deaths, which is true.
If--hypothetically--this supervolcano explodes, it would probably cause a mini ice age in the northern hemisphere for some years, and would destroy much of the immediate area.
....explodes close to its maximum potential.
>> I live fairly close to Yellowstone, and can assure you that we are getting closer to an eruption.
We are closer this year than we have been for many, many years in the past.<<
Hasn't it been 600,000 yearssince the last one? Doesn't the next eruption get closer each year but still might be hundreds of thousands of years till the next one?
God that movie was awful.
There were a lot of people who trashed "Volcano" - but I liked it. I thought it was a decent movie.
I blame George Bush...and Haliburton...and that evil Warthog Cheney....aaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh we are all GOING TO DIE! (sooner or later)
The Yellowstone caldera is expanding because that's where all of Al's "Carbon Offsets" go!
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