Showing posts with label Yellowstone caldera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yellowstone caldera. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Houston's Horrific Flooding: Thank Goodness It Can't Happen Here...Eh...Right? Think Again...

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What's happening in Houston is beyond belief. And tragically, horrible flooding is happening now in southeast Asia as well, with at lea...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

"Supervolcano" Causes Road to Melt! Hmm, About That...

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"Parts of Yellowstone National Park closed after Massive Supervolcano beneath it melts road!" screams the headline in a typical...
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Airliner Chronicles: A Broken Land of Unspeakable Violence

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That's an inflammatory title, and yet in the context of geology it is quite literally true. The land in today's picture is indeed br...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

A Convergence of Wonders, Day 11: The Orange Steam is OK, but the Blue Stuff Will Kill You....

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Say what? Oh yeah, I was once working on a series about our journey across the Pacific Northwest and the Northern Rocky Mountains in June ca...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

A Convergence of Wonders, Day 10: Exploring a Real Hot Spot

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It was day 10 of our field studies journey through the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rocky Mountains . We had finally arrived at one of the...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Other California: Why worry about Yellowstone? We've got our own "Supervolcanoes" to worry about

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First off, let's get something straight. As far as geologists are concerned, there are no "supervolcanoes". There are stratovo...
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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Queensland's Flooding: Thank Goodness It Can't Happen Here...Eh...Right? Think Again...

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Before you read anything else in this particular blog, go to the BBC news and look at 3 minutes and 46 seconds of stunning pictures of the ...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

The Yellowstone Media Storm: We're all gonna die! Oh, well sure, but...

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Is Yellowstone gonna blow? Sure. Will everybody die? Sure, absolutely. But there is pretty much no connection between the first question an...
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