Posts treating: "Yellowstone"
Monday, 02 May 2016
"There's no place like this".
It's something that you hear once in awhile in a crowd of people seeing Yosemite Falls for the first time. You'll hear it from people seeing a geyser explode from the ground in Yellowstone, or gaping at the vast expanse of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. There are other places where you won't hear those words, because you won't be standing in a crowd of people.
The Geological Evolution of the NW USA.Leader: Dr Doug RobinsonSaturday 28 May - Sunday June 12th 2016 The trip will occupy 14 nights, flying into Seattle in Washington State and out of Denver in Colorado.The weather can be expected to be very variable; temperatures should range from low 60s to lows 70s during the day. The western NW USA usually has its driest period during the summer, but the Yellowstone, and Rocky Mt region near Denver are at high altitude and it is not unknown for snow to [...]
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [2015-06-26 17:51:50]
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Everyone so often in Yellowstone I find myself off the beaten path, on an older track less traveled, sometimes by choice and sometimes by accident (and hopefully not face first into a hot spring). A few weeks ago, my path took me beyond the boardwalks and well-traveled trails of the Park, into an area of Hayden Valley where few people venture. The old road less traveled in Hayden ValleyHowever, another ranger and I were not hoping to see wolves, or grizzlies, or any other habitués of [...]
Read moreThe spheres above represent the volume of erupted tephra for some of the most widely-known volcanic eruptions. Most people believe that Vesuvius in AD79, Mount St. Helens 1980, Mount Pinatubo 1991 were enormous but, as you can see, they were very small compared to ancient eruptions such as Wah Wah Springs, Toba, Yellowstone and Long Valley.
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-01-12 14:00:21]
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Many artists draw inspiration from nature and it’s not surprising when faced with landscapes which are as beautiful as the one featured in this week’s Imaggeo on Mondays post. Josep Miquel Ubalde Bauló writes about the origin of the colourful mud pots and bobby-socks trees! This picture corresponds to The Artist Paint Pots, found in in Yellowstone, the first National Park of the world. Yellowstone is one of the most geologically dynamic areas on Earth. A huge underlying magma body releases [...]
The vast caldera of the Yellowstone
Erupts siliceous ash from time to time.
It’s far from the Cascade subduction zone
Therefore, a mantle plume’s the suspect prime.
But magma conducts electricity
Conductors in the mantle lie out west
The tomographic maps are very pretty
But show no melt where theory would suggest
A plume, with mantle source below the crust
Should yield a seismic
I'm going to start with the conclusion (I've highlighted some parts using the bold font):
Geological activity at Yellowstone provides no signs that a
supereruption will occur in the near future. Indeed, current seismicity,
crustal deformation and thermal activity are consistent with the range
and magnitude of signals observed historically over the past century [Lowenstern et al.,
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With another weekend on the horizon, maybe some of you are looking to visit one of Utah’s geothermal watering holes to soak and relax. So—do you have to travel all the way to Yellowstone, or can you find a beautiful hot spring right here in Utah? Check out our GeoSights interactive map HERE to find out
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [2014-07-30 03:34:49]
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One day last week I found myself feeling kind of punky. I woke up a bit dizzy, and found that my blood pressure was higher than it usually is. For that reason, I decided to take a sick day. Unknown to me, though, while I was laying about in my government housing unit worrying about my blood pressure, I missed meeting Mary and Brad.When I returned to work the next day, my blood pressure was back to normal but I was still feeling a bit out of sorts. As soon as I walked in the door, another ranger [...]
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Volcano Science And News Blog [2014-07-10 19:17:00]
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After a few months of relative quiet at California's Long Valley Caldera, East of Mammoth Mountain volcano, activity has intensified with hundreds of small and shallow quakes at depths of around 4.7 miles. Many small tremors are occurring below the surface about 1.5 miles north of Yosemite Mammoth Airport. These are small quakes, and likely not able to be felt by anyone not at the epicenters. These quakes are interesting mostly due to the sheer numbers, not the magnitude.More than likely these [...]
Erik Klemetti posts an update on recent activity at Ubinas Volcano in Peru. In addition, some people have expressed concern about the recent magnitude 8.2 earthquake triggering an eruption at one of several nearby volcanos, Erik comments on these concerns plus, in another post, on the recent earthquake at
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Erik Klemetti, author of the Eruptions blog has an interesting article titled: “So, You Think Yellowstone Is About to Erupt“. Related: The Volcano Beneath
The internet is a funny place. It is a bounty of incredible scientific information the likes of which the average person has never had at their fingertips. It is also a place where unsubstantiated and downright wrong rumors can
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Evidence has been found of twenty ancient supervolcanoes near the Utah-Nevada border. Supervolcanoes are giant volcanoes that blast out more than 1,000 cubic km of volcanic material when they erupt. They are different from the more familiar straddle volcanoes because they aren’t as obvious to the naked eye and affect enormous areas.Read more.