Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone

Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84
degree water
temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one
of the largest
“super volcanoes” in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park
area has been on a
regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000
years ago making the
next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size
of the 1980 Mount
St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of
magma under the
park and have calculated that, in parts of Yellowstone, the ground has
risen over seventy
centimeters this century.

In July, 2003, Yellowstone Park rangers closed the entire Norris Geyser
Basin because of
deformation of the land and excessive high ground temperatures. There is
an area that is 28
miles long by 7 miles wide that has bulged upward over five inches since
1996, and this year
the ground temperature on that bulge has reached over 200 degrees
(measured one inch below
ground level).

From:
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031219.htm

Okay. Can we PLEASE get the hell off this damned rock???


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