<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello All.<div>There was an interesting article in The Oregonian yesterday about Yellowstone's hydrothermal features, FYI.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/science/120044311778980.xml&coll=7">http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/science/120044311778980.xml&coll=7</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Also, the current issue of Scientific American has an article on a new theory about hot spot movement. It mainly covers Hawaii and the Emperor Seamounts, but I would think the theory might also apply to the Yellowstone hot spot. The article is a synopsis of a longer discussion by the same author, Dr. John A. Tarduno of the University of Rochester, in the journal Nature. I can't find a link to it on the website, though. Sorry.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Pat Snyder</div></div></body></html>