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Super Volcano airs April 10th on Discovery...

JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
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[URL=http://www.moviejungle.com/absolutenm/templates/news.asp?ArticleID=2271&z=3]Super Volcano[/url]

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  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    I don't get cable. :(
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    On the bright side of the supervolcano issue, If Yellowstone does go up again, in the long run it will fix soil depletion and salinization issues in the midwest.
  • AlaricAlaric Damn kids! Get off my island!
    That was on here not long ago. It's pretty good. The style is unusual, a story told by people looking back at the events leading up to and during the eruption of the supervolcano.
    The documentary that follows uses a lot of the effects from the docudrama and while it doesn't add very much detail it is still worth watching.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    i watched it when it was on here and i have to say i was pleasantly surprises by how much they actually got right for a change. it could have been much worse. even tho im doing geology and was sitting there nitpicking, i still found time to enjoy it
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Alaric [/i]
    [B]That was on here not long ago. It's pretty good. The style is unusual, a story told by people looking back at the events leading up to and during the eruption of the supervolcano.
    The documentary that follows uses a lot of the effects from the docudrama and while it doesn't add very much detail it is still worth watching. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Wait a minute, wasn't that the show about Vesiuius, not this one about a supervolcano? or is this another one done in that exact same style.. i wonder if i'll get it in HD since my cable company JUST added discovery HD theatre (i love it)
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Entil'Zha [/i]
    [B]Wait a minute, wasn't that the show about Vesiuius, not this one about a supervolcano? or is this another one done in that exact same style.. i wonder if i'll get it in HD since my cable company JUST added discovery HD theatre (i love it) [/B][/QUOTE]


    nevermind, i just watched the preview for it on discovery.com and it is another one doen in the same style, wow it looks like fun.

    its amazing how few people know that Yellowstone is a ticking timebomb.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    yeah. id be interested to see if it does blow in my lifetime. as long as im not living nearby ;)
  • AlaricAlaric Damn kids! Get off my island!
    I can live my whole life quite happily not seeing such an event. After that, no problem!
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    Interesting opinion article that relates. If pole shifts can create that much havoc, We are all going, no matter what. Not sounding pessamistic of course.

    [url]http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2181.asp[/url]
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PSI-KILLER [/i]
    [B]Interesting opinion article that relates. If pole shifts can create that much havoc...
    [url]http://www.indiadaily...[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]That site must be taken with "bucket" of monomethylhydrazine and nitrogentetroxide!
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    I get tired of crap reporting for sensationalism... :rolleyes:
  • NorlionNorlion Earthforce Officer
    I'm watching it now. I've seen and older version of this show before.

    I notice that we are overdue for an super-asteroid strike and a super-volcano eruption. I've got it. the giant asteroid will crash into the erupting super volcano counteracting the effects and saving the earth. This would make a great all-star movie.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    The all-star movie will be when they have to send Bruce Willis up there with a team of mentally unstable oil rig workers and a jock so they can set off random nuclear bombs at the right places to guide the asteroid into the volcano, while meanwhile Nicholas Cage leads a team of scientists who rarely get out of the lab to drill down into the volcano with a special underground train thing and set off a nuclear bomb, ensuring the volcano erupts at the exact time of the asteroid impact.
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    That almost sounded like a Warleader post...

    :D
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    People don't seem to realize that while Yellowstone may only be around 2 million years old, the hot spot underneath is at least 16 million years old and has generated far more than just 3 calderas that we know of.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]People don't seem to realize that while Yellowstone may only be around 2 million years old, the hot spot underneath is at least 16 million years old and has generated far more than just 3 calderas that we know of. [/B][/QUOTE]Yep, exactly like hot spot under Hawaii. It's just that there has low viscosity meaning it doesn't erupt violently. (unless it meets water underground)

    If you look that pic it almost looks like whole Snake River Plain would be result of hot spot.


    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Norlion [/i]
    [B]I've got it. the giant asteroid will crash into the erupting super volcano counteracting the effects and saving the earth.[/B][/QUOTE]Don't worry, every mass extinction sized impactors wouldn't notice any volcano, no matter how big eruption would be.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]The all-star movie will be when they have to send Bruce Willis up there with a team of mentally unstable oil rig workers and a jock so they can set off random nuclear bombs at the right places to guide the asteroid into the volcano, while meanwhile Nicholas Cage leads a team of scientists who rarely get out of the lab to drill down into the volcano with a special underground train thing and set off a nuclear bomb, ensuring the volcano erupts at the exact time of the asteroid impact. [/B][/QUOTE]


    "And the tally is in. The world has chosen Harrison Ford!"
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    We should have a poll about this. :p
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Sanfam [/i]
    [B]"And the tally is in. The world has chosen Harrison Ford!" [/B][/QUOTE]

    My original draft had Harrison Ford instead of Nicholas Cage, but then I realised that most people wouldn't get it. :D
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    The same hot spot also created the Columbia flows that go from the snake river all the way to the pacific
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B]Yep, exactly like hot spot under Hawaii. It's just that there has low viscosity meaning it doesn't erupt violently. (unless it meets water underground)
    [/B][/QUOTE]

    and that is one thing that the movie totally failed to consider, that a Yellowstone eruption could be more of a kilauea type eruption, the movie mentions it briefly then moves on, but that would be a possibility as well.

    Or there could be a cone building event, some "minor" eruptions and uplift leading to the creation of a large volcanic cone.

    then the giant space aliens could come and fill it with ice cream and... Umm nevermind
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    heh heh... yeah that always gets me, like here at Long Valley Caldera ( I say here, because it's only 40 miles away... :p ) most people who hear about it assume a massive Caldera forming eruption will be the likely event if magma reaches the surface.

    Long Valley is a good example of how the pie crust can bubble and burst every so often, and not form a catastrophic eruption.

    It's a great place to visit for those who are of the geology/volcanology mind set.

    Back in 1980, an intrusion dike almost made it to the surface and would have likely created a new phreatic crater or cone, or a lava dome if it didn't hit too much water in the sub surface ground layers.

    Long Valley breaths just like Yellowstone does.

    :)
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Entil'Zha [/i]
    [B]and that is one thing that the movie totally failed to consider, that a Yellowstone eruption could be more of a kilauea type eruption, the movie mentions it briefly then moves on, but that would be a possibility as well.

    Or there could be a cone building event, some "minor" eruptions and uplift leading to the creation of a large volcanic cone.

    then the giant space aliens could come and fill it with ice cream and... Umm nevermind [/B][/QUOTE]

    Nope, yellowstone wont be like kilauea and here is why:

    The violence of an eruption is dependant on the chemical composition of the magma. A magma with high silicon content will be explosive, a low silica content will be liquid. Silica also affects the viscosity (more silica = more viscous). Evedence has shown that the magma deep in the earth is low in silica. Magma gains silica as it rises through the upper crust. The result: contanental magma will tend to be high silica while magma that erupts from ocean crust will have lower ammounts of silica.
  • psycopsyco Ranger
    The Christmas tsunami, Easter quake and Mt. Talang erupting on Sumatra may also be part of the Toba caldera stirring. They're all connected by the same fault line. It was a bit bigger than Yellowstone's biggest eruption.

    [url]http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/12/sumatra.volcano.reut/[/url]
    [url]http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/southeast_asia/indonesia/toba.html[/url]
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Croxis: it also depends greatly on the amount of volatiles in the magma in addition to the silica content. Mt St Helens wouldnt have been anywhere near as bad if there wasnt snow on the top
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ShadowDancer [/i]
    [B]Croxis: it also depends greatly on the amount of volatiles in the magma in addition to the silica content. Mt St Helens wouldnt have been anywhere near as bad if there wasnt snow on the top [/B][/QUOTE]

    Pressure from below can make a difference in the equation as well.

    Mt St Helens was more about the failure of the sidewalls of the mountain due to pressure. Had that section of the North face not weakened, the 1980 eruption might have been a bit safer...

    Coulda, woulda, shoulda... Who knows...
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Yah the st helans eruption was the rappid loss of pressure from a large chunk of the mountain landsliding from an earthquake. I'm sure magma that rises in contenental crust would take up more volitals as well.
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