Yikes - check out this link.... http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/yellowstone-volcano.gif&imgrefurl=http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/hazards.html&h=632&w=725&sz=40&tbnid=SJuAHEU45vtqRM::&tbnh=122&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyellowstone%2Bvolcano&usg=__i1I1-E3EVcOShXnN82eTDHKsupk=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&cd=1
(not current on the seismic act, but interesting....)
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Yellowstone heating up
To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 1:38 PM
that is nothing in geological time, but yes, the plates did shift. Part of the
system is under Idaho. The caldera is huge...even if the plates moved 50 miles,
it would still be over the caldera.
Leslie wrote:
> Yellowstone supervolcano - 642,000 years ago.
> Wouldn't the tectonic plates have moved a fair bit since that time?
I.E. the way the plates have shifted forming a string of islands spreading out
from one particular volcanic "hot spot".
>
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