Scientists Map Yellowstone Magma Plume

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hard to believe; where is a source for this data, Mr. Delano?

Ronald of FL 8:25PM December 20, 2009

The Yellowstone magma chamber , that blob of semi-plastic rock that fills the chamber is cooler then temperature in my Jotul wood stove. The scientist measured the temperature in the magma chamber by some fancy calculations and found the highest reading was only 400 degrees Farenheidt or 200 degrees celcius.
We need 2,200 degrees farenheidt to melt rock and since the rotating inner core is spreading the heat of the earths core there will not be any mor heat applied to this chamber.
This is excellent news. We do not have to worry about Yellowstone "popping it's cork" any time soon, so we can tell oour teenagers to stop watching the show, "It could happen tomarrow".

John Delano of NY 8:10AM December 16, 2009

In Plate Tectonics you need thin plate layers moving around and subducting, and a thick plate as referenced in the authors work as 500 miles deep is impossible to work with.The 17 mile Mo-ho or change in density of rock can not be ignored as it is in the "thick Plate" explanation of the old trailing magma chambers trailing off to the northwest.
The trailing plume is as simple as a child pushing over his wet sand castle wall leaving behind the remnents of where it was.
The mountain building era from 16 million years ago to 10 million years ago in the the Rockey mountains is a time when the mountains were being pushed from the west coast towards Colorado. The "push" came from a massive ice shell flow that remained in the Pacific Ocean and it rode inland forcing up the land like a giant buldower.The area of 3 states wasvpushed up on top of the state of Colorado to form the Colorado Plateau and the front range of Wyoming marks the final move.
The north pole was 1600 miles southeast of where it is today on the 90 degree East Longitude Line. The Equator was north of Hawaii
and the crust was still sliding 6 inches per year as the ice mass melted.
Its a simple answer, and you must believe before you can see.

John Delano of NY 8:44AM December 15, 2009

The dates of th old calderas is a very important technical discovery. If the Plate Tectonic concept is correct the movement of the plate should not have much effect on the shape of the 500 mile deep plume above the Mo-Ho line at 17 mile deapth, assuming the thickness of the North American plate is only 17 miles thick. The thickness of the plate should shear off the section of the magna plume below the moving bottom edge of the plate. There should be a trailing edge of the deeper plume that is left trailing off to the northeast as the plate moves to the southwest.
The plume or magna pool is riding along within the lithosphere and shows no distortion of a moving 17 mile thick plaate.

John Delano of NY 3:59PM December 14, 2009

Yellowstone supervolcano has blown multiple times over the last 17 million years at various intensities and time between events. It's only the last 3 times that averaged 600 000 years between each event ie. 2 gaps. Two data points are not enough to establish a trend. There is no signs or expectation of eruption any time soon.

Katherine Jones 8:09PM December 13, 2009

This is a very serious problem that could effect the entire planet with a result of our way of life as we know it being changed for a very long time. It could possibly wipe out mankind forever!
We the people of this planet need to take this situation very seriously and begin working on ways of solving this problem ASAP!
I became aware of this back in 2004. I began working on a solution that would use big boring machines. These machines would need to use new technologies that would bore a corkscrew hole down in the crust of the Earth into the lava chamber, thus allowing the gas and lava out at a slow pace, very much like a distilling method. The holes would need to be lined with high temperature tiles. The boring machines would then return to the surface acting as valves controlling the release of gas and lava. The gas could be used for turning turbines creating a source of energy which then could be used for supplying power for the project along with powering our country for some time to come. The lava could be used for construction material after the rare minerals were removed. This method could be used for all situations of this nature.
Taking in account of the history of this area, over the last couple of millions of years, it has blown on average of every 640,000 years or so and it has been about that long since the last time it has erupted. There is no time to waste on creating solutions to this problem. These ideas of mine are just a broad scope and there is a great deal of details needed to complete the solutions. I would be more then happy to help in any way I can to help in this matter.
Best regards,
Ted McBain

Ted McBain of CA 5:50PM December 13, 2009