About this title: Despite growing evidence of geothermal activity under Yellowstone, it look geologists a long time to realize there was a volcano beneath this wildlife preserve, and an even longer time to find the crater. Ariel photographs revealed this as 45 miles wide, encompassing the whole of Yellowstone! What will happen, in human terms, when it erupts?Greg ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780760329252ISBN:0760329257
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Description: New. We are no longer able to guarantee delivery by Christmas. Every year, 3 million visitors tour Yellowstone, America's favorite national park. Yet most are unaware they are standing atop one the world's most destructive volcanoes. It's active and could explode in another colossal eruption! In field research and interviews, author Greg Breining uncovers the true story of the super volcano underlying Yellowstone National Park. The only volcano in the world fueled by a major hot spot beneath ... read more
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Description: New. We are no longer able to guarantee delivery by Christmas. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Every year, 3 million visitors tour Yellowstone, America's favorite national park. Yet most are unaware they are standing atop one the world's most destructive volcanoes. It's active and could explode in another colossal eruption! In field research and interviews, author Greg Breining uncovers the ... read more
"This book dealt realistically with Yellowstone's threat, discussing the important theories of Dr Robert Smith's. This is not a book full of hysteria amd panic. Rather, it deals with the facts as they are.
The Anecdote about Sen. Dick Durbin at the end of the book is worth the price of the book."
"I would have given this fascinating book five stars, but for the fact that like too many books these days, this one was proofread via spell-checker, i.e., not really. It was filled with so many missing particles and whole phrases and so many other types of bad grammar that it was very hard to read -- and yet I couldn't put it down. Like Paul Gallico's Poseidon Adventure, which set the type for books-I-couldn't-put-down-until-I-had-finished-them-in-spite-of-awful-writing-and-proofreading, the information it presented on its already fascinating subject kept me going right to the end. For that alone it deserves at least 4 stars.
Super Volcano discusses, well, super volcanoes, especially one of the most dangerous in the world today, that of Yellowstone National Park, whose calderas -- yes, you read that right, numerous calderas spread across four US states, from Oregon on the West, through Nevada and Idaho, to the northwestern corner of Wyoming on the east, the result of 142 separate eruptions -- testify to the vast power of this 16.5 million-plus year old volcanic system. Its eruptions have at times left Nebraska, a thousand miles away, covered in layers of fine ash two to ten feet deep. As the crust of the Earth moved over the hot spot welling up from the Earth's upper mantle that created this huge volcanic system, the result of plate tectonics, it bulged up in a dome 300 miles wide and 1,700 feet high; today, the Yellowstone Plateau rises to an average of 7,900 feet above sea level, thanks to the activity of that system.
The author looks at the way in which geologists and paleontologists have put together models of the Yellowstone super volcano, the devastation it has caused, how it compares to other prehistoric super-eruptions somewhat below the vast flood-basalt episodes that helped close out the Permian and Cretaceous, but above many others), how it compares with deadly eruptions throughout human history (beside its eruptions, these others pale into insignificance), what will happen the next time it erupts -- and when that eruption is likely to take place.
The Yellowstone super volcano is still active, and could erupt at any time. The size of that eruption could, at the smallest, devastate surrounding states and wreak global havoc in the form of a 7-year-long winter that causes global crop failures, mass extinctions of many plant and animal species, cover nearby areas in ash layers many feet thick, pollute the air with particulates that could lead to respiratory failure for countless survivors, human and otherwise, and poison America's waterways with sulfur and other potentially deadly chemicals. At the high end of the scale, it could initiate a Great Mass Extinction, rendering most complex life on Earth extinct, and bringing about a sustained Ice Age.
Unfortunately, this is not sensationalistic tabloid journalism. Rather, it's a serious discussion of what scientists have learned about the Yellowstone volcanic system and other super volcanoes, ancient and modern, found everywhere on Earth. I really wish it had been proofread more carefully, because it deserves far better than what it got, and readers have a right to expect something like this book to communicate what it has to offer a great deal better than it actually succeeds in doing.
The Yellowstone super volcano is real, and, yes, it really could erupt again the way it has in the past, with devastating consequences for the whole world. While volcanoes can't be controlled, they can be avoided, and prepared against. Every American should have the knowledge given in this book."
"A fun read for those interested in geology, Yellowstone and/or volcanoes. It's a little thin, but it's well written and the style is enjoyable. Much of it will be old news to serious armchair volcanologists, but I still learned a lot from it and found it to be an enjoyable reading experience."
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