Rare explosion at Yellowstone!

Geologists witness rare Yellowstone explosion

Associated Press - May 24, 2009 12:05 PM ET

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - A geologist at Yellowstone National Park was in the middle of a lecturing a group of colleagues on the rarity of hydrothermal explosions earlier this month when, all of a sudden, one went off just behind him.

Geologist Hank Heasler was giving a lecture in the Biscuit Basin on May 17 when a hot pool behind him exploded. It spewed mud, rocks and hot water about 50 feet in the air.

Geologists only know of only a handful of such unpredictable explosions in Yellowstone’s recorded history. Heasler and the others were just out of reach of the hot showering hot water and other debris.
http://www.ktvq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10416002

Faceful

You know the guys had some alcohol or weed before the pissing event. The Wyo earth just didn't like it.

want to have some fun? check it out,

YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO GETTING READY TO BLOW ITS CORK

http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm

can't vouch for the site, one can find plenty of info in science publications.

the United States as we know it is almost instantly gone and the rest of the world gets plunged into a new ice age.

At least once a week. And today I caught a crawl about this explosion so checked it out.

Obviously this little burp is nothing to worry about, but the geologists probably got all excited to be right there to see it.

Did you scroll down?

The Fundies are coming!

No offense to DU'ers living in those states - just joking.

cuz we like, can't predict them and stuff.

The 50-foot-high hydrothermal explosion of a hot pool May 17
in Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin is seen in a photograph by Wade Johnson,
a field engineer with the nonprofit UNAVCO earth-science consortium in Boulder, Colo.
Nobody was injured in the rare explosion, witnessed by about 25 geologists and other scientists on a field trip.
PHOTO COURTESY WADE JOHNSON

Artile: http://www.jacksonholenews.com/article.php?art_id=4624

Interestingly enough...

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Recent explosions

Most of Yellowstone’s recent large hydrothermal explosions have been the consequence of sudden changes of pressure deep within the hydrothermal system. Generally, these larger explosions have created craters in a north-south pattern (between Norris and Mammoth Hot Springs). It is estimated that all the hydrothermal craters seen now were created between 14,000 and 3,000 years ago. Volcanologists believe no magma has ever broken through the fragile crust of Yellowstone Park or stirred the movement of magma in the reservoir beneath Yellowstone. These phenomena are now considered to be mutually exclusive events; hydrothermal explosions are not correlated with volcanism, although throughout the world all hydrothermal systems are heated and caused by magma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_explosion

This is a warning. Take heed.

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albeit rarely, but they happen.

May be they need to do it again, though Grandfather Martin Martinez -- a beautiful soul and so instrumental in this -- now Walks the Wind

Yellowstone the focus

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%209-2.html