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Showing posts with label yellowstone supervolcano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yellowstone supervolcano. Show all posts

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Yellowstone Eruption Days Away?


Because the resistance to pressure decreases as with the amount of mass between the the magma and the earth's surface, it would be safe to project an eruption in a matter of days, or a few weeks. What remains to be seen is the nature of this eruption and whether or not it will be localized or Biblical in proportion. Maybe something in between.'

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Monday, December 21, 2009

When Yellowstone Blows it's Going to be Huge


The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup.

A related University of Utah study used gravity measurements to indicate the banana-shaped magma chamber of hot and molten rock a few miles beneath Yellowstone is 20 percent larger than previously believed, so a future cataclysmic eruption could be even larger than thought.'

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