This article uncovers the long question mysteries of the volcano in Yellowstone National Park, "the caldera at unrest". Yellowstone is the oldest, most famous National Park in the United States. Yellowstone has been discovered to be a supervolcanoe, one that has never errupted in recorded human history. It's most recent explosion occured 640,000 years ago. Scientists say that if this explosion occurs it owuld be 1000 times as strong as the erruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. As a result of the explosion, the whole planet has felt it's effects. From a newly designed landscape to adapted changes in forests and the relaease of many gases into our stratosphere causing weather changes. However, what has most recently been uncovered is that the volcanoe is still "alive". The quesiton to answer now is when will it errupt again?
I found this article particularly interesting due to the fact that I went to Yellowstone National Park just two summers ago. It really is a beautiful place to see. I only question though, if Yellowstone is rises every decade is there a possiblity for an explosion in my lifetime?? I also think this article shows why it is necessary to have National Parks. They provide us with not only just recreational land but land that has less effect from humans in order to discover and learn some of Earth's underlying patterns and mysteries.
-Alyssa Grigg
I think that Yellowstone apears to be a ver beautiful place, i have never been there but pictures make it appear very pretty. i think it is extremely horrifying that a volcano 1000 times as strong as Mt. Saint Helens could erupt in my lifetime.. what would that mean for Earth? would it make GLobal warming increase exponentially and eventually lead to the demise of Earth with humans? If Yellowstone was not a national park we may have never found out about Yellowstone being a volocano, and even more important if it was not protected human disturbances such as mining could have caused a volcanic eruption long ago. So this has helped us preserve a part of Earth.
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I think that Yellowstone apears to be a ver beautiful place, i have never been there but pictures make it appear very pretty. i think it is extremely horrifying that a volcano 1000 times as strong as Mt. Saint Helens could erupt in my lifetime.. what would that mean for Earth? would it make GLobal warming increase exponentially and eventually lead to the demise of Earth with humans? If Yellowstone was not a national park we may have never found out about Yellowstone being a volocano, and even more important if it was not protected human disturbances such as mining could have caused a volcanic eruption long ago. So this has helped us preserve a part of Earth.
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This article seems really interesting to me. To have a volcanoe in one of the most historical and beutiful National Parks in the U.S is outstanding. Especially with the mystery of it and the question of when will it explode. In the wildfire videos we saw in class to have a fire in Yellowstone park was horrible to have a volcanic explosion seens to be even worse especially when scientists say that the power will be 1000 times as strong as the erruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.
ReplyDelete....This better not happen during our lifetime. The thought that this supervolcano may have gone unnoticed for a longer period of time if it had not been in a national park is quite disturbing. At least it is protected from development.
ReplyDeleteIf the volcano erupts anytime soon, at least we know that Jon Cusack can survive it...just like he can apparently survive 2012..