tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872907145488660332.post7643667008942191298..comments2023-12-19T04:38:55.966-08:00Comments on Timmyfan Whispers: Yellowstone Quakes and Shakes!Dee TimmyHutchFanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872907145488660332.post-88081364375757441732009-01-25T17:20:00.000-08:002009-01-25T17:20:00.000-08:00Across the United States during the Tertiary, foss...Across the United States during the Tertiary, fossils have been unusually forming since the Eocene, 50 million years ago. What would happen is that you would get a small, slow accumulation of sediment, and then A MASSIVE 3-FOOT THICK BURIAL OF SEDIMENT! Well, except in Florida. So, what happened? Yellowstone happened. All the Cenozoic fossils you see in museums from North America; oreodonts, entelodonts, protceratids, camels, three-toed horses, rhinos, all covered in flour-white soil? Yeah, that's volcanic ash, that choked those poor mammals to death. This has been going on since the Eocene (which makes the American West a great place to study mammal evolution, but bad for everyone else). If Yellowstone were to blow...everone west of the Mississippi would be destroyed. And people on the east coast would starve, seeing as the Great Plains are the breadbasket of the U.S. If there was any substantial evidence that Yellowstone would go boom, I would high-tail it to Florida, what appeared to be the only safe place in the Continental U.S. (but anything east of the Mississippi would be fine, I guess). Of course, it doesn't help that the Yellowstone Caldera is moving. During the Early-Middle Miocene, it was on the Oregon-Idaho Border. Through the Pliocene and Pleistocene, it traveled through and created the Snake River Valley of Idaho. Now, its in Wyoming, but by 50 million years hence, its supposed to be smack dab in the middle of Montana. Soon, Florida won't even be safe.Metalraptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053007518293924808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872907145488660332.post-8503994811159155182009-01-12T16:13:00.000-08:002009-01-12T16:13:00.000-08:00Mount Baker did the same thing since 1975, and not...Mount Baker did the same thing since 1975, and nothing has happened to it either.Dee TimmyHutchFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872907145488660332.post-79298247547499518892009-01-12T15:38:00.000-08:002009-01-12T15:38:00.000-08:00Hey, what better way to go than to BE at Yellowsto...Hey, what better way to go than to BE at Yellowstone when it goes off. David Johnston did when Mount St. Helens went off.<BR/><BR/>I would have to believe the scientists, just because there are earthquake swarms does not necessarily mean that a volcano is going to go off anytime soon. Mount Hood did that back in 1992 and nothing happened. I remember reading about it.<BR/>We all tend to get excited when we hear about earthquakes going off in volcanic areas and we really want to believe something will happen in the near future. Though that was true with Mount St. Helens, that type of eruption is a rare event and does not happen often.<BR/>Yellowstone however is much bigger than Mount St. Helens, and the probability of a major catastrophic event happening there is very low. However volcanoes are very unpredictable and it would be something to see it go off.<BR/>AnnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com