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University of Utah Researchers Reveal Scary Secret Yellowstone volcano, finding magma beneath it, which is collected in The tank is simply fantastic in size.
Suffice it to say that it is forty-six thousand cubic kilometers of lava of fire, which, for example, can be filled The Caspian Sea is almost to the brim! All this is in the formed crater, the size of which is also striking in its kilometer parameters.
Until now, scientists wondered where such a volcano comes from. a huge amount of carbon dioxide, almost fifty tons per day, because magma is ten thousand cubic kilometers (such a volume fire lava was determined in 2013) just can not throw so many gases to the surface.
The video shows a three-dimensional model of the Yellowstone volcano (brown), a lava reservoir (yellow), which It is located under its red-hot small brother (red color), whose “breath” and fiery bursts are already breaking to the surface land in the park of the same name.
Note that the discovery of a huge reservoir of fire magma did not shake the scientists in their calculations about how and when a supervolcano erupts. They are still confident that the latter a terrible eruption occurred about six hundred and forty thousand years ago. If this happens again, then North America the end will come. However, the same scientists argue that the frequency eruptions of this “monster”, ready to destroy half the planet, is at least seven hundred thousand years old, so worry about disaster is too early. However, a barrel of gunpowder on which “sits” the United States, this does not become less dangerous, rather, on the contrary, if now it’s also clear that it’s “gunpowder” is almost five times more than it seemed before …
Volcanoes of the USA
