Re: Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
At 04:25 PM 1/18/2004 -0500 Gary Nunn wrote: In my travels online today, I ran across a reference that took me to another reference that eventually led me to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory home page. There is some very interesting information here as well as some spectacular pictures and maps. One map in particular shows the areas of US that were probably covered by Ash from Yellowstone's last few eruptions over the last 2 million years. I can't imagine just how catastrophic that would be today: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/figures/fig3.html Yellowstone Volcano Observatory home page http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/index.html If I recall my Geology classes correctly, there is a very non-zero chance that pretty much all of Yellowstone National Park could collapse into a giant caldera within our great-grand-childrens' lifetimes. These collapses have occurred periodically throughout geologic history the remnants of one of those collapses is now Craters of the Moon National Park in Idaho. I believe that a similar event is also responsible for having produced massive floods that once destroyed most of the Eastern half of Washington State. JDG ___ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1/29/03 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
--- Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my travels online today, I ran across a reference that took me to another reference that eventually led me to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory home page. There is some very interesting information here as well as some spectacular pictures and maps. One map in particular shows the areas of US that were probably covered by Ash from Yellowstone's last few eruptions over the last 2 million years. I can't imagine just how catastrophic that would be today: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/figures/fig3.html Yellowstone Volcano Observatory home page http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/index.html From the above I clicked to http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/new.html which has a nifty-cool bathymetric relief map of Yellowstone Lake, and some FAQs about the 'bulging bottom.' :) Yellowstone is utter-gloss to visit -- the geysers are marvelous, the 'mud-pots' would make Pumba squeal with joy (that, or cook him!), and the wildlife a sure-to-see (bison elk fer sure, and good chance for moose, pelican, golden eagle or pronghorn). Debbi And Don't Forget The Wildflowers Maru __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
