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Post by frankiegth on Oct 18, 2009 14:07:01 GMT
Yellowstone park is the most geothermal area in the world!!!
Just heard that on the telly.
And yet another posting, GET IN THERE. ;D
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 18, 2009 23:00:05 GMT
It's in Wyoming - the answer to one of the pub quiz questions tonight
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 19, 2009 11:42:05 GMT
I did know that, also that it could potentially blow up at any minute and ultimately kill us all...
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Oct 19, 2009 12:07:47 GMT
One way for City to avoid relegation...
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 19, 2009 15:31:40 GMT
That would be quite a large scale liquidation...
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Post by votp on Oct 19, 2009 15:41:22 GMT
Wyoming is rectangular, possibly even square. Like Colorado its boundaries are defined by a ruler rather than natural demarcation. Wasn't The Virginian based in Wyoming? (That's one for the older readers here I think)
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 19, 2009 19:19:23 GMT
Most of the westernmost North American states are regular shapes.
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Post by votp on Oct 19, 2009 20:58:33 GMT
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Post by robotsmfc on Oct 19, 2009 22:01:27 GMT
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Post by frankiegth on Oct 20, 2009 10:29:55 GMT
Yellowstone is situated above a super volcano which according to geologists erupts about every 65,000 years or so. The last time it erupted was about 65,000 years ago, appearently.
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 20, 2009 11:53:05 GMT
Yes, and the caldera has apparently been rising gradually for the last few...
If the supervolcano goes, it will throw up an immense blanket of dust, gases and rock into the atmosphere, which would totally block out the sun over a very large area, would completely wipe out several local species and would spread death and destruction around the world, disrupting weather systems, killing animals and plants, and all sorts of delightful things like that.
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Post by votp on Oct 20, 2009 19:39:56 GMT
Surely there are some downsides as well?
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Post by thevicar on Oct 21, 2009 9:52:16 GMT
Yellowstone park is the most geothermal area in the world!!! Just heard that on the telly. And yet another posting, GET IN THERE. ;D [grumpy ex geologist mode] They lied to you. Whilst it is the most geothermally active place on land not on a constructive plate margin, it isn't currently the most geothermally active place on Earth. But you don't expect the truth from the TV did you now. Oh and the it'll blow up because it's due for an eruption and kill us all!1!!!!11111oneoneone!!1111!!! stuff is equally wrong. Else we wouldn't be here now. It might kill off some of the Americas and cause some intersting weather that might cause a global war but probably not - despite the dire warnings about caldera shifts and the like. Sadly saying that doesn't get the Benfield Grieg Hazard Reasearch Centre any grants but sticking a certain prof on the telly every year or two saying the end of the world is nigh does. [/grumpy ex geologist mode] We's all gonna die (can I have my research funding now please).
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Post by frankiegth on Oct 21, 2009 16:27:04 GMT
Yes, and the caldera has apparently been rising gradually for the last few... If the supervolcano goes, it will throw up an immense blanket of dust, gases and rock into the atmosphere, which would totally block out the sun over a very large area, would completely wipe out several local species and would spread death and destruction around the world, disrupting weather systems, killing animals and plants, and all sorts of delightful things like that. Well that would trump global warming.
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Post by peekay on Oct 22, 2009 19:39:09 GMT
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