[Geysers] LiveScience article, speculations on Norris uplift

[Paul Strasser]

About that live science article, it's the same stuff we heard a couple of
years ago, with the same lack of substantiation.  So a few questions to the
good scientists cited in the article.

 

If five or six Steamboat eruptions from 2000 to the present might be due to
"cracks in the crust" - please explain what caused the Steamboat activity
1961-69 and 1982-84, during which it erupted many dozens of times, sometimes
as frequently as every 7-10 days.  

 

If the magma at Sour Creek (and elsewhere) might have caused the disturbance
in 2003, what caused the other few dozen disturbances (some which were as
large or greater)?

 

Same old same old.

 

(And that picture they link to of the "Sour Creek Dome" is just a plateau on
the other side of the Yellowstone River from Mud Volcano.  The Sour Creek
Dome is a resurgent dome that rises and falls in heights measured in inches,
not the hundreds of feet of this plateau.  The Dome covers many square miles
and is not noticeable to the naked eye.  That picture gives one the
impression that this huge swelling chunk of land is about to burst.)

 

Paul S.

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