Yellowstone- Scientists Find Source Of Supervolcano’s Heat – IOTW Report

Yellowstone- Scientists Find Source Of Supervolcano’s Heat

Tech Times- A giant volcano lies beneath Yellowstone National Park and the heat it generates powers all the hot springs and geysers in the area, but where does this heat come from?

Yellowstone Hotspot

Scientists describe Yellowstone as a hotspot marked by anomalously high temperature. The intense heat produced by this hotspot is responsible for the melting of the crust and the formation of basaltic and rhyolitic magma.

The Yellowstone hotspot is fixed within the Earth’s mantle and has long been suspected to be part of a mantle plume, an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle. Mantle plumes may originate from the boundary separating the mantle and the core about 1,850 miles beneath the surface.

To find evidence of a plume beneath the Yellowstone, Study researchers Peter Nelson and Stephen Grand, from the University of Texas, used seismic tomography, a technique for imaging Earth’s subsurface using seismic waves produced by earthquakes or explosions. The data provided evidence for plume extending from the core-mantle boundary all the way to the base of the crust at Yellowstone.

“The model reveals a single narrow, cylindrically shaped slow anomaly, approximately 350 km in diameter that we interpret as a whole-mantle plume. The anomaly is tilted to the northeast and extends from the core-mantle boundary to the surficial position of the Yellowstone hotspot,” the researchers wrote in their study, which was published in Nature Geoscience in March. “Our results strongly support a deep origin for the Yellowstone hotspot.”

Preventing Yellowstone Eruption By Stealing Supervolcano’s Heat

Yellowstone erupts about every 600,000 years and its next eruption could be catastrophic. A group of NASA scientists and engineers earlier revealed the idea of stealing the volcano’s heat to prevent an eruption.

If more heat could be extracted, the volcano may not erupt. NASA estimates that cooling the volcano on its brink of an eruption by 35 percent could ward off an explosion. more

24 Comments on Yellowstone- Scientists Find Source Of Supervolcano’s Heat

  1. Is this really new information?
    Also, an alternative energy engineer friend told me years ago that Yellowstone could provide all of the energy needs for USA if it were tapped. A lot less polluting than solar panels and windmills, in many ways!

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  2. What this boils down to is a comprehensive grasp the obvious. The core of the earth is very hot. There has to be aa weakened vent in the crust where heat can rise allowing for hot springs, geysers, and volcanoes. DUH!!!

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  3. If they steal the heat and use it to produce energy, can democrats and republicans find a way to fuck that up?

    Trick question… Of course they can… and will.

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  4. A super volcano, and you want us to let you poke a hole in it.
    …I’m going to need to see you practice on a little volcano first, before I let you guys dick around with this one.

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  5. But the Earth is sacred!

    Well… unless that diagonally, upward pointing cylinder is a cis-normative, flaming lance of patriarchy! Then tap it to death! Right now!

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  6. I heard North Korea has one of them super volcanoes.
    I bet Mr. Trump told him we would send an nuke down the stovepipe of their volcano if he didn’t stop his shit.

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  7. I was thinking that it is a good fookin’ thing that the damned shaft is 350 km in diameter….. were it much smaller we would have already been toasted!

    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

  8. Don’t tell anyone, but the heat source is actually the remnants of another civilization’s nuclear reactor that melted down 600,000 years ago.

    No? OK, it’s a massive coal mine fire.

    No? Well then, it’s the burning remains of millions of mastodons that fell into a hole a long long time ago.

    No? it’s Gaia’s eternal hot flash. She’s menopausal, you know.

    No? OK. It’s hell. Pure and simple. It’s hell, and hell is in Yellowstone.

  9. Once again the reflexive thought is to alter the world they have no control over and put no thought to any natural consequences beyond their desired end result.

    Do an environmental impact study first. That should stall them a millennia or two.

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