YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO GETTING READY TO BLOW ?

Monday, January 4, 2016

YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO GETTING READY TO BLOW ?

RED ALERT: YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO GETTING READY TO BLOW Full (PHOTO & VIDEO)

of year and other factors.

It could release 1 ft layer of molten ash 1,000 miles from the National Park

It would be 1,000 times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption

A haze would drap over the United States, causing temperatures to drop

Experts say there is a 1 in 700,000 annual chance of a eruption at the site

A supervolcano in the heart of America’s northwest has the potential to blanket the US in a ‘nuclear winter’.

If it were to erupt, the Yellowstone supervolcano would be one thousand times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, experts claim.

While it has lain dormant for more than 70,000 years, scientists say that we can’t rule out the possibility eruption this may some day take place – although they say the chances are extremely slim.

The Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park is among the park’s many hydrothermal features created by the Yellowstone supervolcano. Experts say there is a one in 700,000 annual chance of a volcanic eruption.

The volcano at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana sits atop a huge reserve of molten rock and last erupted 640,000 years ago.

It is one of the largest active continental silicic volcanic fields in the world. Silicic is used to describe magma or igneous rock rich in silica.

An in-depth report by How Stuff Works has revealed the process that would take place if the volcano were to blow.

It says that a mixture of magma, rocks, vapour, carbon dioxide and other gases would eventually push out from the ground, creating a dome shape with cracks.

The dissolved gases would them explode, releasing the magmaacross the park.