08-01-2004 03:58									#1
	Uh oh, Yellowstone Caldera Awakens Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Just saw on the MSNBC scroll of several earthquakes hitting NW Wyoming. Apparently not big quakes, but is the Yellowstone caldera awakening? That's the last thing we need, but if it does go, better during the winter than crop season...

	08-01-2004 04:28									#2
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I've been waiting for this. Bring on the genetic bottleneck baby, I wanna see some evolution in action! Whoo! Bring on da mutants!

*waves little flag*

	08-01-2004 04:31									#3
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Better during the winter than the crop season? I guess so... but we're all dead if it really does go. Six feet of ash man, six feet of ash.

	08-01-2004 04:33									#4
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the what?

	08-01-2004 04:43									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us the what?

USGS:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes.../framework.html

	08-01-2004 05:05									#6
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To bad Oerdin is gone. He'd tell us all not to worry, and we'd be fine with that because we'd believe our resident Geologist... Are there any other geologist that can tell us not to worry?

	08-01-2004 05:10									#7
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Oerdin would probably not look at the info in time.

	08-01-2004 05:17									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us the what?

Isn't Caldera a giant moth that shoots lazers out it's eyes?

	08-01-2004 05:17									#9
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Mothra?

	08-01-2004 05:18									#10
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quote: Originally posted by TCO Mothra?

uh, yeah. Not a smiliar name at all. Maybe I'm thinking of some other giant monster.

	08-01-2004 05:35									#11
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I would worry about Bush's plans for next year more than I would worry about the caldera.

	08-01-2004 05:49									#12
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Yes, don't worry about it, Bush is going to nuke that Caldera in his war against terror

	08-01-2004 06:24									#13
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So? Serves it right for threatening us.

	08-01-2004 06:26									#14
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Mothra A caldera is the largest type of volcano, when one blows it can literally cover the continent in ash destroying crops and clogging everything. Let's put it this way, Krakatoa was a burp in comparison. Yellowstone Lake is a caldera...the continental crust in that region is very thin which is why they have geysers, hot streams, etc, because the magma chamber is very close to the surface. As it fills up after a blast and reaches capacity, the whole region begins to bulge until the crust breaks. They know the caldera has been bulging because they can chart where the lake was compared to where it is now. Forests on one side of the lake have become submerged as the caldera has elevated one end. They're measuring a highway that crosses another caldera in Long Valley, Calif., and it too is rising.

	08-01-2004 06:34									#15
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A caldera is a very large volcanic crater, generally with two or more vents.

	08-01-2004 06:42									#16
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REally? I thought it was a big moth...

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Caldera is synonymous with SCO.

I bet Microsoft is funding this eruption.

	08-01-2004 06:55									#18
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Simplified map of Yellowstone National Park, Caldera, and resurgent domes.

Attachment: yellowstone caldera.jpg
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	08-01-2004 06:59									#19
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OH NO WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!11

	08-01-2004 07:05									#21
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Thx Plato, that is good map showing not only the size of that sucker but you can see how the uplift has tilted the lake so the water keeps flooding the SE edge and beyond like lifting one of those little backyard pools so the water pours out the side.

Wow! they had a 7.5 up there NW of the caldera in '59!

	08-01-2004 07:08									#22
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Looks promising.

	08-01-2004 07:08									#23
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Hey chegitz, you called that pretty good, 2 vents and there are 2 domes in the caldera.

	08-01-2004 07:11									#24
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The caldera looks to be ~50 km across, what a monster waiting to blow!!!

	08-01-2004 07:11									#25
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Well, we've talked about this before. Sometime ago, when Oerdin brought it up giving us a big lecture on it when they shut down the tar pits or sulfur pits (whatever they are called) due to irregular sizemic activity...

LETS BLAME BUSH!!!

	08-01-2004 07:20									#26
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Hot off the wire from Fox News: link to Al-Qaida confirmed - Bush White House has evidence Mohammed Atta met with the Metamucil Man at Old Faithful minutes before an eruption. Scientists comb area for new WMD believed to cause Earthly indigestion...

	08-01-2004 07:27									#27
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Well, it's been nice knowing you guys. Don't worry, though; once you've all been incinerated or have starved to death, I'll come back with a boat full of Japanese chicks and start repopulating North America. The US of A shall rise again...

	08-01-2004 07:29									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Japher To bad Oerdin is gone. He'd tell us all not to worry, and we'd be fine with that because we'd believe our resident Geologist... Are there any other geologist that can tell us not to worry?

I'll comfort you. I met him for 4 hrs, so I'm sure the knowledge rubbed off.

* Lonestar tells Japher to not worry, it's all a Government lie

	08-01-2004 07:30									#29
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drake did you see lost in translation? comments?

	08-01-2004 07:31									#30
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Thanks Lonestar, I feel much better.


Though the image of Oerdin "rubbing" on you kind of disturbs me.

Don't ask, don't tell... eh