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Would there be much warning before the Yellowstone Volcano erupted?

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  • Daniel
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    http://scienceray.com/earth-sciences/geology/yello...

    That will exactly answer it for you and other interesting facts about Yellowstone too.

  • 4 years ago

    Volcanoes are formed whilst there's a super rigidity interior the earth's crust and the stress of magma reaches so severe that it unearths its way upward inflicting an eruption. now and lower back the magma chamber breaks its aspects and purely reaches to the flank or summit of volcano and now and lower back reaches to the exterior inflicting an eruption. interior the volcanoes that are actually not lots lively grant the magma from the deeper areas of the earth isn't sufficient to reason eruption so different the situations crystals types and that they bypass down on the backside liberating gas contained in one in all those bubbles which come to the real of chamber and now and lower back the stress created via those gas bubbles are sufficient to erupt a volcano or basically wait there for somewhat greater push which they get from the subsequent new magma formed in the earth. the warmth basically triggers the magma for eruption which strengthen into there for a protracted time. Magma is the melted rocks deep interior the earth crust. The rocks soften with the aid of fact of super warmth interior and types a thick liquid referred to as magma and whilst it includes the exterior that's named as lava and flows into the air contained in one in all those ashes and so on. If the volcanic eruption is explosive then the situation types a cloud of warm Tehran. The issues coming in its way are practically destroyed. Ashes that are released interior the sky fell on earth contained in one in all those powdery snow and it does not melts. a great mass of snow would reason harm to the flora, residing organism and human beings. The intensity of explosion relies upon on the thickness of magma. The gases won't be able to get away truthfully. for this reason they are accumulates interior till they get sufficient warmth ability for the explosion. Atom analyze would help detect Volcanoes And Oceans

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, there would be lots of warning, many months, if not even years. 12/21/2012 doesn't have *ANYTHING* to do with it, so please don't buy into that.

    Since Yellowstone is such a huge volcano (a supervolcano), we would see increasing seismic activity, a large and obvious bulge forming across the entire caldera (like a bubble forming from a piece of gum), increased acidity of the hot springs and other liquid vents, increased hydrothermal activity at geysers and fumaroles (or simple vents), an increasing thermal signature (extremely obvious to satellites), significantly more outgassing of carbon dioxide, water vapor, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, and similar volcanic gases.

    We will have plenty of warning. That is, if it ever erupts again, which I personally believe it might not.

  • 1 decade ago

    no but we can predicted it no grantee the predictions will be correct but the most accurate is 21/12/2012

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