After analyzing the minerals, mineral ash from the most recent super eruption, scientists from the University of Arizona came to the conclusion that the last time the volcano woke up after two injections of fresh magma that floated to the reservoir under the Caldera. If the SUPERVOLCANO under Yellowstone will erupt again, we will have much less time to prepare than we thought.
The minerals showed that the critical change of temperature and composition have been accumulating for a few decades. But until now, geologists believed that the implementation of such a transition SUPERVOLCANO the century.
A 2013 study showed that the reservoir of magma feeding the volcano, about two and a half times more than shown by previous estimates. Scientists also believe that tank shall be drained after each powerful explosion, so I think that he needs a lot of time to recover. But a new study has shown that the magma can be updated extremely quickly — and the volcano can explode at the earliest, by the standards of geological time.
“It’s amazing how little time is needed in order that the volcanic system is switched from the quiescent state to the eruption,” he told the New York Times, study co-author Hannah Shamloo.
And yet Yellowstone is one of the most observed volcanoes in the world, said Michael Kent, current member of the Observatory, watching the Yellowstone volcano for USGS. A variety of sensors and satellites are constantly looking for changes. Now the SUPERVOLCANO, it seems, is not a threat.
“We always see something interesting, but didn’t see anything that could lead us to believe that a magmatic event described by scientists, actually took place,” says Poland. He also notes that this study still damp, but very interesting.
The new article adds to a number of surprises that scientists have found over the past few years, studying the volcano.
Today Yellowstone national Park owes much of its rich geological beauty of his own brutal past. Wonders like the geyser Old faithful or Grand prismatic source are products of geothermal activity, still boiling beneath the Park, and she, in turn, owes a huge magma plume that feeds the SUPERVOLCANO.
About 630,000 years ago a powerful eruption shook the region, svergnuv 240 cubic miles of rocks and ash and created the Yellowstone Caldera, a volcanic fissure with a width of 60 kilometers, which is spread over a large part of the national Park.
The eruption also left behind the Lava Creek Tuff, the deposition of ash, which Shamlu and her colleagues at Arizona state University carefully examined. The results of the study were presented in August at the meeting of volcanologists in Oregon. An early version of his report a pair of scientists also presented in 2016 at the meeting of the American geophysical Union.
Scientists believe that the volcano has experienced at least two eruptions of this magnitude during the past few million years. Fortunately for Americans, the volcano had been mostly dormant since then, as the first people arrived in America. Small shakings and earthquakes periodically filled the Caldera with lava and ash; the latter happened some 70,000 years ago.
In 2011, scientists found that the land over the magma chamber is soaked for 10 inches over the past 7 years. This extraordinary rise, because it covers a large area and is quite fast, says Bob Smith of the University of Utah, an expert on the Yellowstone volcano.
Smith says that a swelling magma reservoir, which is responsible for raising, was too deep to create fears about the imminent death of all life within a radius of the volcano; on the contrary, soft “breathing” Caldera has provided scientists valuable information about the behavior of the volcano.
In 2012, another group of scientists reported that at least one of the past superiority could be represented by two events. Consequently, such large-scale events can be more frequent than believed.
Almost everyone who is studying the dormant Yellowstone SUPERVOLCANO, I’m sure that now we have no idea when will happen the next major eruption. If we underestimate the rate of heating up of a volcano, it could happen in the next ten to twenty years.
Yellowstone could explode in ten years
Ilya Hel