Yellowtone Caldera Research Paper
Nearly six hundred and fifty thousand years ago a massive volcano in the western part of North America blew its top in a super-eruption. This tremendous eruption spewed deadly toxins, ash and debris into the in huge billowy plumes. Its dust and grime traveled nearly two hundred and fifty miles coving a good portion of the United States. The force of this massive volcano’s explosion was so powerful, that it collapsed in upon itself. This was known as the Lava Creek eruption and formed what we now know today as the Yellowstone Caldera and or as the Yellowstone super volcano. “The caldera is a volcanic crater some 40-by 25-miles large left behind when 240 cubic miles of debris ruptured out of the earth and into the air during volcanic discharge
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This eruption is known as the Huckleberry ridge eruption. Scientists have given estimated measurements for eruption. They believe it blew an estimated six hundred miles worth of Yellowstone dirt, rocks, and ash into the air.
The second minor but still quite impressive eruption reached nowhere near the heights of its predecessor, it spewed about one hundred and seventy five miles of debris. This did however, result in the formation of one of the caldera's at Yellowstone and is named the Mesa Falls eruption. The third and final eruption was, as noted above. Some more recent eruption help to illustrate Yellowstone's past, are Mount St. Helens, Mount Pinatubo, Krakatoa and Mount Tambura. The most well-known and movie depicted volcano Mount St. Helens was a walk in the park by comparison, when it covered Washington State with an ash bed about the size of Lake Michigan in 1980. Even Mount Pinatubo, which exploded in the Philippines in 1991, doesn't even begin to have the same kind of roar Yellowstone's did. Not even did Krakatoa in 1883, which killed thousands, and the final explosion of which reportedly ruptured the eardrums of people up to 40 miles away. If we look at Indonesia in 1815 and focus on the chaos when Mount Tambura blew, the thousands of deaths and miles of debris help us understand the severity of what smaller volcanos can do. With all of these examples above, we can only imagine what we will face in comparison when the much larger volcano in Yellowstone goes
This eruption is known as the Huckleberry ridge eruption. Scientists have given estimated measurements for eruption. They believe it blew an estimated six hundred miles worth of Yellowstone dirt, rocks, and ash into the air.
The second minor but still quite impressive eruption reached nowhere near the heights of its predecessor, it spewed about one hundred and seventy five miles of debris. This did however, result in the formation of one of the caldera's at Yellowstone and is named the Mesa Falls eruption. The third and final eruption was, as noted above. Some more recent eruption help to illustrate Yellowstone's past, are Mount St. Helens, Mount Pinatubo, Krakatoa and Mount Tambura. The most well-known and movie depicted volcano Mount St. Helens was a walk in the park by comparison, when it covered Washington State with an ash bed about the size of Lake Michigan in 1980. Even Mount Pinatubo, which exploded in the Philippines in 1991, doesn't even begin to have the same kind of roar Yellowstone's did. Not even did Krakatoa in 1883, which killed thousands, and the final explosion of which reportedly ruptured the eardrums of people up to 40 miles away. If we look at Indonesia in 1815 and focus on the chaos when Mount Tambura blew, the thousands of deaths and miles of debris help us understand the severity of what smaller volcanos can do. With all of these examples above, we can only imagine what we will face in comparison when the much larger volcano in Yellowstone goes