Question to anyone who may want to answer this. Should the movement of the fault line cause some serious disturbance is there a chance that it may affect Yellowstone. I hope note, as if Yellowstone should become airborne it could affect a good portion of the US.
Yeah, my money’s on Yellowstone. I don’t believe the ‘magma five miles below’ story for a minute. Not when forests are dying from the heat, roads are melting and many areas are now off limits.
The constant uplift and subsidence in different areas of the park indicates magma much closer to the surface. The magma rises up, contacts solid rock pushing it up. As the rock melts it adds volume to the magma chamber reducing the upward pressure on the rock. The result is the ground subsides until the magma fills in the space added by the melted rock to start the uplift again.
IMO the magma is much closer to the surface than they’re admitting.