{"id":24372,"date":"2017-07-10T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24372"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:51:33","slug":"national-geographics-guide-to-the-yellowstone-supervolcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24372","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic&#8217;s Guide To The Yellowstone Supervolcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-08\/ready-blow-national-geographics-guide-yellowstone-supervolcano\">National Geographic&#8217;s Guide To The Yellowstone Supervolcano<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"messages-holder\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-599423 ads-injected\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Amid a growing <strong>&#8216;swarm&#8217; of over earthquakes (now over 1000)<\/strong>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-06\/supervolcano-concerns-rise-after-montana-hit-strongest-earthquake-20-years\">Montana&#8217;s largest quake ever<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-28\/scientists-fear-supervolcano-eruption-swarm-earthquakes-near-yellowstone-soars-800\">scientists are growing increasingly concerned<\/a><\/strong> that the so-called &#8216;super-volcano&#8217; at the heart of Yellowstone National Park could be building towards a Category 7 eruption.<strong><em>So what is a &#8216;super-volcano&#8217; and what does its explosion mean for life on earth? NatGeo explains&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid537784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3c2UxRF9qyw\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2016\/05\/yellowstone-national-parks-supervolcano-animation\/\">As National Geographic details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think of Yellowstone as a gigantic pressure cooker, fueled by a massive supervolcano.<\/strong> Water from rain and snowmelt, much of it centuries-old, percolates through cracks in the Earth\u2019s crust until heated by molten rock reservoirs deep below. The water then filters upward, eventually finding release in the thousands of geysers, hot springs, and other hydrothermal wonders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo_0.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"el_201486462\" class=\"hidden\" data-google-query-id=\"CL-wkKbS_tQCFUEC0wodi98MSQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5206\/invc.zerohedge\/non-finance_governmentandpolitics_3__container__\">Eruptions of this supervolcano expel so much material that the crust caves in, <strong>creating a craterlike depression called a caldera.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"injected-ad-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"injected-ad-container\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5206\/invc.zerohedge\/non-finance_governmentandpolitics_5__container__\">Yellowstone is known as a supervolcano because of the violence and size of its explosions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo1_0.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The plume of hot rock has been calculated at more than 600 miles deep.<\/strong> But scientists suspect it actually descends as far as 1,800 miles, all the way to what\u2019s known as the Earth\u2019s outer core-mantle boundary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo2_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The reservoirs and plume are superheated, spongelike rock holding pockets of molten material called magma.<\/strong> The reservoirs\u2019 heat, which originates in the plume, is what keeps the area\u2019s geysers boiling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo3_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient rain and snowmelt seep down to just above the volcano\u2019s magma reservoirs, until they are superheated and rise again through the fractures.<\/strong> Volcanic heat and gases help propel steam and water toward the surface, where they escape through hot springs or geysers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic&#8217;s Guide To The Yellowstone Supervolcano Amid a growing &#8216;swarm&#8217; of over earthquakes (now over 1000), and Montana&#8217;s largest quake ever, scientists are growing increasingly concerned that the so-called &#8216;super-volcano&#8217; at the heart of Yellowstone National Park could be building towards a Category 7 eruption.So what is a &#8216;super-volcano&#8217; and what does its explosion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7018,15464,15392,4318],"class_list":["post-24372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-national-geographic","tag-supervolcano","tag-yellowstone","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24373,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions\/24373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}