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Yellowstone ‘Super Eruption’ Could Blanket U.S. in Ash, Study Finds
TIME ^ | Sept. 2, 2014 | Dan Kedmey

Posted on 09/03/2014 12:37:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 09/03/2014 12:39:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

If Yellowstone erupted into a massive, ash-spewing volcano, how far might the plume travel across the continental United States? From coast to coast, blanketing every city in ash, according to an unsettling new study.

Geophysicists developed a computer model of a Yellowstone

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TOPICS: Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: eruption; volcano; yellowstone
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1 posted on 09/03/2014 12:37:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Then the meaning of Ash Wednesday will take onna whole new meaning...


2 posted on 09/03/2014 12:38:47 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SeekAndFind

Women and Minorities hardest hit....


4 posted on 09/03/2014 12:40:12 PM PDT by apillar
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To: SeekAndFind

Penetrating insight into the obvious. Wonder how much they spent on this study.


5 posted on 09/03/2014 12:40:43 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Meh, a collision with a super-duper asteroid could be bad too.

Or a really big solar flare.

Or space aleins looking for a new home that have to terra form our planet to suit their needs.


6 posted on 09/03/2014 12:40:55 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: SeekAndFind

More Ash = more boomstick.

I fail to see the issue here.


7 posted on 09/03/2014 12:41:56 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: SeekAndFind
They could have just watched any of the dozen Discovery Channel shows that already went over all this.

Did they manage to blame global warming at least, to make the study more important?

8 posted on 09/03/2014 12:42:04 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It looks like we’ll all be hauling ash.


9 posted on 09/03/2014 12:42:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp or woman's shelter for illegals! It's my home! !)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Yellowstone ‘Super Eruption’ Could Blanket U.S. in Ash, Study Finds"

Who hasn't known this for forty years?

10 posted on 09/03/2014 12:43:14 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: SeekAndFind
And an asteroid could smash the world to smithereens.
11 posted on 09/03/2014 12:44:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw a map a few years ago that placed Denver out on the edge of the death zone from a Yellowstone eruption.


12 posted on 09/03/2014 12:44:34 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: YHAOS

39 year olds?


13 posted on 09/03/2014 12:44:58 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: SeekAndFind

Old news. This could happen tomorrow.
Or in 60000 years. Either way I will not sleep well tonight because the POSOTUS is a communist.
The Yellowstone supervolcano bothers me not.


14 posted on 09/03/2014 12:45:11 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: dead

I think they blamed GWB


15 posted on 09/03/2014 12:46:46 PM PDT by Autonomous User
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“If Yellowstone erupted into a massive, ash-spewing volcano, how far might the plume travel across the continental United States? From coast to coast, blanketing every city in ash, according to an unsettling new study.”

What does Yellowstone volcanic ash have against cities?

What could it be about our cities that this Yellowstone volcanic ash will blanket while not covering the more wholesome rural areas of our country?


16 posted on 09/03/2014 12:47:30 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: SeekAndFind

And there’s not a damned thing any of us can do about it.

Not even if we quit driving our cars, give up plastic bags and recycle.


17 posted on 09/03/2014 12:52:18 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Excellent reply and I agree. Better to prepare for the more likely massive ash fallout resulting from the conflagration we are about to unleash confronting Islam. A super volcano event unlikely to occur in my lifetime is unworthy of my immediate concern.


18 posted on 09/03/2014 12:52:47 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Meine antwort ist nein. Ende der Debatte. Macht euer Spiel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good thing I have volcano insurance.


19 posted on 09/03/2014 12:53:55 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: al baby

LOL!


20 posted on 09/03/2014 12:54:47 PM PDT by YHAOS
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