Tag: Yellowstone
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There’s Something MUCH Bigger Than Yellowstone. And It Will Happen Again
PBS Terra has an interesting video about super volcanoes and they larger cousin… Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs). Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the history of the continental United States. And if Yellowstone erupted again, the consequences for the U.S. and the…
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ESCONI November 2021 General Meeting – November 12th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Yellowstone Volcanology and the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory”
The ESCONI November 2021 General Meeting will be held on Friday, November 12th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom. Our speaker is Stacy Henderson part of the “MonStER” lab (Montana State Eruption Research) . For more information, see this link https://www.monsterlab.org/. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88672087166?pwd=UG1QVEd2R1dEVDlKTjJBcDNSMVlZZz09 Meeting ID: 886 7208 7166Passcode: 694990 One tap mobile+13126266799,,88672087166#,,,,*694990# US…
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Discovery of ancient super-eruptions indicates the Yellowstone hotspot may be waning
From the “Maybe Some Good News Department”, phys.org has an article about the hot spot under Yellowstone National Park. This paper, from the journal Geology, looked at past Yellowstone eruptions of the super volcano to assess trends and found that the interval and the intensity of eruptions have been decreasing. Throughout Earth’s long history, volcanic…
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PBS Eons: How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
PBS's Eons Channel on YouTube has an episode about the supervolcano under Yellowstone. Twelve million years ago saw the creation of Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska. Truly, a bad day in the Miocene!
