Comments on: The Geology of Yellowstone National Park : Part I https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/ Tour operator in Jackson, Wyoming Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Anonymous ;))))) https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-109 Tue, 28 May 2019 13:01:11 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-109 Very useful information!

]]> By: Alice https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-108 Tue, 28 May 2019 12:59:23 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-108 Wow! This was very helpful, thankyou!

]]> By: Anonymous https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-107 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:19:13 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-107 This helped me in my science project, thanks so much!

]]> By: Mary https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-106 Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:24:16 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-106 You Show the lithosphere but not along the Great American Craton. In a recent interview on Utah Public Radio it was said that because the hot spot is moving to a thicker area of the North American Craton it would make a movement of magma harder to travel up. But isn’t the lithosphere damaged along the edge of the North American Craton then making the movement easer? Earthquake also seem to be more active along these plates where the lithosphere is damaged from this movement.
Thank you.

]]> By: Jason https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-105 Wed, 09 May 2018 23:33:52 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-105 In reply to Tim Ingraham.

Tim

The current thinking on the Yellowstone Hot Spot is that it is much larger than previously believed and there is a really big plume being pushed towards the surface from the main magma chamber. As the earth’s crust moves to the southwest the top has been taken off the plume and carried acting a smaller hotspot along the way. One of the more recent lava flows was west of Yellowstone at Craters of the Moon. Nebraska is probably safe from the hotspot but could be experiencing swarms of earthquakes due to fracking. A lot of western stated are experiencing this problem in areas of intense oil and gas exploration (metro Denver and areas of Oklahoma have experienced some really bad consequences).

Talk soon and thanks for reading the blog!

Jason

]]> By: Tim Ingraham https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-104 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:08:57 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-104 I am researching a theory . If the north american techtonic plate has moved west the yellowstone cauldera chould be getting choked off after 700,000 years ? nebraska panhandle has had numerous earthqakes in march and april of 2018 ? Very Strange ? New hotspot ?

]]> By: Courtney Boykin https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-103 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:34:38 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-103 Thank you for this information. This information has helped me tremendously with my geology class.

]]> By: Jason https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-102 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:00:17 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-102 In reply to Patrick Rhea.

Patrick

Thanks for reaching out and using our blog to educate others about Yellowstone. I believe the source for the slide you are referencing is from the USGS. My guess is that it is oriented to the South because of the visual reference of the Tetons. A lot of Maps (especially arial images and illustrations) are oriented that way as the valley of Jackson Hole gives a reference point for the largely flat Yellowstone Plateau. I hope that helps!

Jason

]]> By: Patrick Rhea https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/the-geology-of-yellowstone-national-park-part-i/#comment-101 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:06:49 +0000 https://jacksonholewildlifesafaris.com/?p=2472#comment-101 Dear sirs,
If you wouldn’t mind, I have a question relating to your excellent page on Yellowstone’s geological history. Under your “The Geology of Yellowstone NationalPark: Part 1” page, in the second section titled “Geologic History of Yellowstone”, you begin with an illustration that demonstrates plate tectonic’s effects on Yellowstone. Would be most grateful if you share why the artistic perspective of the illustration is oriented from approximately the North Pole and designed to look southward towards Yellowstone. In short, i would be obliged if you would share who came up with that perspective, be it yourselves or others. Your page and the images included were extremely helpful when I needed to briefly explain to a small group Yellowstone’s geologic history. Would be grateful to hear if the illustrator was drawing with the Mercator bias consideration or, if your unsure, from where the illustration was sourced.

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