Alaskan stratovolcano on the verge of eruption

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: wwswimming

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
It's all cause of teh globul warming! The volcanoes are angry...

actually, one of the proposed techno-fixes for global warming is to put
lots of reflective material in the air. i'm pretty sure these proposals often
use volcano eruptions as an example of the techno-fix they're proposing.

So Obama will get to use Bush's weather machine now?

 

[dawp]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
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Originally posted by: dawp
phhhht! That's just small potatos

dawp: the anti-Quayle.

I ain't VP either.:laugh:

 

[GoPackGo]

Looks like the volcano means business...the glacier on it is melting virtually overnight...

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Looks like the volcano means business...the glacier on it is melting virtually overnight...

Better overnight than instantaneous. It diminished the chance of a lahar coming down.

 

[Stiganator]

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[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Farang
oh noes, if this loses its top you'll no longer be able to see Russia.. Sarah Palin is going to lose all of her foreign policy experience

Fortunately, Bristol has experience with the aftermath of unexpected eruptions.

:laugh:

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Looks like the volcano means business...the glacier on it is melting virtually overnight...

Better overnight than instantaneous. It diminished the chance of a lahar coming down.

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Sadly this melting ice is only affecting a limited area the size of two football fields and is attributed to the very hot gases from a fumarole. The rest of the glacier remains, leaving plenty of material to fuel lahars if the volcano fully erupts. Since the lower slopes are not inhabited, such lahars are only likely to take out trees in its path on the lower slopes and then pollute cook inlet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...p_on_sc/alaska_volcano

This particular volcano last erupted in 1900, leaving Ma Nature plenty of time to heal the damages. How violent this coming eruption will be and the damages it causes remain anyone's guess.

 

[conehead433]

Maybe it will create a bridge to some island.

 

[DrPizza]

:Q

If the ash cloud is too big, it'll obscure Palin's view of Russia!

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: conehead433
Maybe it will create a bridge to some island.

...or create an island that needs a bridge to it?

 

[KDOG]

So its this thing gonna erupt or what? Will it be big or just a show? Where can I find out more about the Yellowstone Caldera, from a legitimate source? That looks like a monster....

 

[Aegeon]

Originally posted by: Lemon law
This particular volcano last erupted in 1900, leaving Ma Nature plenty of time to heal the damages. How violent this coming eruption will be and the damages it causes remain anyone's guess.

Uh, the Volcano last erupted in 1989, and there are reasonable guesses on most of the likely effects. The impact on Cook Inlet should be somewhat limited by the dilution effect once it reaches that point. The general probable environmental effects are fairly well understood unless it goes up like Novarupa did in 1912. (The eruption of Novarupta was significantly larger than the Mt. St. Helens eruption.)

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: KDOG
So its this thing gonna erupt or what? Will it be big or just a show? Where can I find out more about the Yellowstone Caldera, from a legitimate source? That looks like a monster....

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In terms of the yellowstone super volcano, those super volcanoes are totally in a class by themselves.

Yellow stone has gone basically Super Nova three times in the last 2.1 million years.

The last super volcano allegedly was Togo some 70,000 years ago, and there is much evidence that it nearly caused the extinction of the what then amounted to the human race.

There have been countless more normal volcano eruptions since Togo, but not any real clues of what the precursors of a super volcano eruption are. For that matter, we ill understand the predictive precursors of a more normal volcano.

But if KDOG wants, he could google super volcano or the yellowstone super volcano and then sort through the speculations. At least the physics of a super volcano are fairly well understood.