Altho there is no reason to think that another super volcano is about to erupt, I think it would be nice to have a Yellowstone watch thread.
quote: How will we know if we should start worrying? The real warning signs will be rapid changes in the shape of the ground as well as volcanic gases leaking from the ground, neither of which have been sighted—yet.
The Yellowstone cadre blew about 640,000 years ago, and it blew 600,000 years before that big event. It might be up for a good blow after 100,000 years, but with the changes that have been going on some people are taking more interest in Yellowstone.
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I don't see the point of a "watch". When it blows, we aren't going to be around for very long to complain about it...
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We were at Yellowstone last year, and it seemed to be fading. Many of the geysers were no longer active, and even the ones that were were less spectacular than we remembered. Old Faithful was still good, but a lot of the park was . . . well, kind of boring. The signs betrayed the fact that what we saw and what people 20 years ago saw were not the same thing.
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I don't have a frame of reference because I was only there once, but it was pretty impressive when I saw it about 10 years ago. I wonder what's changed?
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We watched a movie in science class the other day called Super Volcano about what would happen if Yellowstone erupted. Very interesting movie.
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quote:Originally posted by Brinestone: We were at Yellowstone last year, and it seemed to be fading. Many of the geysers were no longer active, and even the ones that were were less spectacular than we remembered. Old Faithful was still good, but a lot of the park was . . . well, kind of boring. The signs betrayed the fact that what we saw and what people 20 years ago saw were not the same thing.
Yellowstone is not the same park you would have seen 20 years ago. I wrote a research paper about the park and it's flora/fauna last year. There are so many exogenous species that have come to dwell in the park that nobody has any clear idea what the ecosystem is doing. We can't keep it in a state of stasis, (not that we should,) and we don't know how to manage a fluid park.
But you seem to be talking about the geology. I know Old Faithful is supposed to continue weakening, and it's eruption interval grow longer, but I don't know if the seismic activity there as a general rule is supposed to weaken.
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