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Magma expanse under Yellowstone supervolcano more vast than thought
cnn.com ^ | 4/24/2015 | Ben Brumfield

Posted on 04/24/2015 10:34:31 AM PDT by rktman

As tourists stroll between Yellowstone's 300 active geysers, taking selfies in front of thousands of bubbling, boiling mud pots and hissing steam vents, they are treading on one of the planet's greatest time bombs.

The park is a supervolcano so enormous, it has puzzled geophysicists for decades, but now a research group, using seismic technology to scan its depths, have made a bombshell discovery.

Yellowstone's magma reserves are many magnitudes greater than previously thought, say scientists from the University of Utah.

Underneath the national park's attractions and walking paths is enough hot rock to fill the Grand Canyon nearly 14 times over. Most of it is in a newly discovered magma reservoir, which the scientists featured in a study published on Thursday in the journal Science.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: ruhroh; volcano
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To: rktman

The Looters & Moochers are looking to Yellowstone to solve the population and unfunded liabilities crises.


41 posted on 04/24/2015 11:34:53 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: discostu

What if a meteor hits it?


42 posted on 04/24/2015 11:36:28 AM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: rktman

"That's only going to be a problem if there are more than nine ninjas in the backseat whose asses I have to kick."

43 posted on 04/24/2015 11:46:08 AM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: rey

My significant other is an Earth Scientist/Geologist and I’ve sent the CNN link to his computer to evaluate this and tell me how many more years we’ll be alive before we die due to this eruption. :o)


44 posted on 04/24/2015 11:47:27 AM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: j.havenfarm

That’s how big a bang it was. It used to be east of Java. ;^)


45 posted on 04/24/2015 11:53:03 AM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: jonno
I thought there was some recent movie (”The day before yesterday”, “the week after last month” - or something) that explored this phenomenon...

I've often thought the unnamed cataclysmic event in Cormac McCarthy's The Road might've been a Yellowstone eruption. The world inhabited by the few survivors in McCarthy's novel (and film) fits the scientific description of what would happen.

46 posted on 04/24/2015 12:00:37 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: FredZarguna

Then that would seem to indicate the God is tired of our BS.


47 posted on 04/24/2015 12:11:11 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: Drew68

“I’ve often thought the unnamed cataclysmic event in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road might’ve been a Yellowstone eruption.”

I have that book and have seen the movie. It is the ultimate in “no way” to survive. The family at the Galveston beach at the end of movie/book, MAY survive if the fish are still alive to be eaten.


48 posted on 04/24/2015 12:15:24 PM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If she blows she could ash out pretty much the whole USA.

Yes. When Yellowstone goes, the USA is over. But can't control it, no point worrying about it. Hopefully it's really far down the road.

49 posted on 04/24/2015 12:22:29 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: rktman

We live near Cody about 30 miles from Yellowstone and we have an active hot spring that we use to heat our house, barn, driveway, hot tub, and pool. The temps usually are around 110F but sometimes it gets up to 120F.

And we’re 30 miles away from where most of the geysers are! So yeah the magma pool has to be pretty big!


50 posted on 04/24/2015 1:14:23 PM PDT by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: jonno
I thought there was some recent movie (”The day before yesterday”, “the week after last month” - or something) that explored this phenomenon...

"2012" touched on it.

51 posted on 04/24/2015 1:16:05 PM PDT by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: discostu

I really doubt that He’s going to do anything but allow us to live with the consequences of our stupidity.


52 posted on 04/24/2015 1:31:03 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Reminds of an item Paul Harvey had. Giving a spelling test, a teacher said: “How do you spell ‘relief’?”


53 posted on 04/24/2015 1:53:36 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: rktman
A few inches under the surface, thermometers recorded a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit -- hot enough to boil water.

Government school.

54 posted on 04/24/2015 2:00:10 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

Rounding to the nearest 100?

LOL


55 posted on 04/24/2015 2:01:17 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Drew68

I thought Viggo did an excellent job in the movie. I haven’t read the book however. Did the book end with anything resembling hope?

The movie - as well as it was played - was depressing...


56 posted on 04/24/2015 2:17:02 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Arthur McGowan

At sea level, water boils at 212 °F. With each 500-feet increase in elevation, the boiling point of water is lowered by just under 1 °F. At 7,500 feet, for example, water boils at about 198 °F. Average elevation at Yellowstone is 8000’.


57 posted on 04/24/2015 3:35:25 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecclest 10:2)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If she blows she could ash out pretty much the whole USA.

Might be a good time for the country to quit slaughtering babies and acting like Sodom.

58 posted on 04/24/2015 3:38:10 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
That would not be a worry, it is blissfully moot, all the sinners and all the saints will be equally dead, not even an Abrahamic bargain this time.

Sometimes even "Christian" snarks are de trop -- dig?

59 posted on 04/24/2015 3:41:46 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: granite

Don’t ruin this with facts


60 posted on 04/24/2015 3:42:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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