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Just hurry up and blow. I'm getting sick of dealing with stupid lazy people.
I've always been interested in geology and I've taken about a half-dozen courses, but most of them -- as well as most of my field rips -- have been in places like the Colorado Plateau, which is very stable Jurassic and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. Studying igneous formations/volcanoes is something new to me.
When Dawn and I retired to Idaho last summer, the first thing we did was to sign up for a 6-week course in the geology of southern Idaho, which is predominately igneous rocks. Most of our area is covered with lava from past eruptions, and is the same formations that have moved east to Wyoming (Yellowstone is partly in Idaho).
This semester I enrolled in an upper-level Field Geology course at the College of Southern Idaho, which will almost surely involve a three- or four-day class trip to Yellowstone. I'm hoping I can get a better handle on the geology here; it's an absolutely fantastic opportunity.
A big Yellowstone outbreak is not very likely to happen in our lifetime. But I live in Europe and there are concerns about volcano outbreaks in Germany and Italy. It might not happen the next 10 years but there is the phlegraean fields that show more and more activity.
If you want a potential geological disaster to worry about, worry about the New Madrid Fault. That one is more likely to act up in our lifetime and could cause widespread devastation in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
The New Madrid quake in 1812 rang church bells over 1,000 miles away and had aftershocks that lasted for five years.
Biden is californian?If it does blow i hope the park is full of California tourists.
---- According to the link , over the last few weeks ,hundreds of earthquakes have occured in the yellowstone .
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