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An active super volcano lying underneath Yellowstone Nation Park.

Date Submitted: 03/05/2004 07:17:05
Length: 2 pages (549 words)
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Recent geological studies have pointed to an active super volcano lying underneath Yellowstone Nation Park. A super volcano is a volcano that will produce a huge catastrophic eruption and has a giant caldera. A caldera forms when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth's crust. This makes a chamber of boiling hot liquid rock also known as magma. These calderas begin to grow very slowly while building up an …

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…we can take precautions that would otherwise not be taken which would be cataclysmic in it's magnitude. Now the geysers at Yellowstone can be seen not for profit but as a warning to what might be coming. These also explains the abnormally large rock quarries in the area. This also explains the large decline of several different species in the area. Most of all it helps us prepare and possible save a loved ones life.

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