I suppose you don't believe in large asteroid impacts or ice ages either- since neither have occurred in past few thousand years? There's...
An exercise in futility. The last Yellowstone eruption left a crater 40-50 miles in diameter- drilling into a magma chamber that size with a 70 foot...
How would you do this? Why do you think it would relieve the pressure? Where would you tunnel?
Gold leaf was, and still is, considered a delicacy in many cultures. In Japan, one can buy drinks with gold messages floating on top. Begs the...
How about addition of volatiles (particularly water)?
Being from Montana, and currently working in the wilds of Idaho- I couldn't resist this thread. Wolves have decimated game animals in large parts of...
Earlier earthquake swarm was in the area of the hydrothermal bulge in the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. With several craters in the Fishing Bridge...
Intriguing indeed. I would echo Ophiolite's response. I worked several years in Central Alabama and throughout the southern Appalachians- and have...
Sorry, I should have given more explanation. The Lava Creek Tuff, around 1000 km3, is the erupted material from the Yellowstone Caldera. The Heise...
Your source? Ancient calderas exist on all continents. In the US alone, several caldera eruptions exceed Yellowstone. At least 3 eruptions in the...
While a caldera eruption of the Yellowstone volcanic system will indeed be a global event, Yellowstone Caldera will not erupt again. The eruption...
Pandaemoni- I apologize for my initial glib response- but I found your post somewhat elitist. Old cynic that I am, too many years in this...
I agree -- no reason to try to become more informed on different veiwpoints:rolleyes:
Earth has gone through periods with higher greenhouse gas concentrations- without dire catastrophe (at least from a geologic perspective).
Kipuka Puaulu certainly stands out from the surrounding volcanic slopes (I had the opportunity to visit several years ago)- as well as several...
So now you are saying that there was no compression? And if there is no overburden, how do you propose that soft seidments, especially non-carbonate...
However, if you put that thin slab of rock under compression, radial tension fractures will not develop.
You still haven't explained why you expect "radial tension fractures" to form during compression. "Tension fractures" don't result from compressive...
Being an infrequent visitor to this site- I just now noted your confusion to my earlier question, which has not been answered... Why would you...
Why would you expect "tensional" fractures to develop in a "compressional" field? "Tensional" fractures should develop parallel to regional...
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