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Yellowstone's Hoodoos
black mamba
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This is what hoodoos look like when earthquakes get to them. This jumble of rocks is identified by road signage as being the park's hoodoos. If you look closely at these rocks, you can easily visualize that, at one time, they looked more like the traditional hoodoo. There's apparently a lot more seismic activity within the park than I had thought.
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Thanks for looking in, Don. I appreciate the comment.
Nice capture of some interesting features....I haven't been to Jellystone Park since I was a kid - your recent posts make me think I need to get back there - thanks for sharing.
Here's a wiki about the Yellowstone Caldera - interesting and scary..... although I spend most of my time worrying about an asteroid strike.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
It's great to hear from you, Eric.
Before going out there, I read up on the Caldera thing. There's no question about it; when that area blows, there's going to be a REALLY BIG show.:hide
I'm with you, though, about that asteroid stuff. I think that's a case of " not if, but when ".
Take care,
Tom
considering Yellowstone sits in the caldera of a supervolcano, over the top of a huge magma chamber, it's not surprising there's near constant geothermal and seismic activity there.
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the worst part of the asteroid thing is that there's almost no one, aside from a few amateur astronomers, paying any attention to NEOs. we could get blind-sided by a rock the size of Manhattan, and never see it coming till it was almost on top of us. if Yellowstone unzips, it'll mess up the climate for a few years, and possibly cause a "nuclear winter"... if a rock the size of Manhattan smacks us, nothing bigger than a shrew will be around to tell about it.
"Out where the rivers like to run, I stand alone, and take back something worth remembering..."
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Hey Rocky,
You're right, of course, in that it's not surprising that Yellowstone is such a hotbed for hydra-thermal and seismic activity. After you're visually confronted with all the evidence, however, the impact of those facts takes on new dimensions.
I'll most likely be gone when the big rock swoops in on Earth. God help those who are around to suffer the consequences.
Thanks for the visit,
Tom
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You're sure right about that, Jim. Scads of those critters were darting all over the place.
Tom