2007-03-10 18:55:27 · 7 answers · asked by phoenix_1834 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The entire park is pretty much one big caldera (volcano). It's mostly in Wyoming. Check their website, it's good.
PS... if it ever decides to erupt in a full-blown way... it's all over for humans...
2007-03-10 19:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your question implies there is a specific location for the volcano, but the Yellowstone volcano is special. Rather than having a distinguishable cone, like Mount St Helens or Mount Vesuvius, Yellowstone Park exists over a large underground magma chamber. Evidence of the existence of this chamber (or 'hotspot') includes the geothermal hot springs, geysers, and fumaroles that make the park famous, as well as large solidified lava flows from previous eruptions like Huckleberry Ridge. When looked at from a geological scale, huge depressions or "calderas" miles wide are noticed where the ground collapsed after huge amounts of magma was ejected.
Today eruptions of lava are unlikely since it is still over a mile away from the surface at its closest point (probably Norris Geyser Basin) although unpredictability is any volcano's hallmark. But don't cancel your vacation - there would be a lot of noticable activity at the surface long before that happened (called "precursory activity") including substantially increased earthquake activity that would be detected by the dozens of seismographs located throughout the park.
2007-03-11 15:46:52 · answer #2 · answered by Craig S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is located in Wyoming. Also WHEN it goes off it most likely will not be the end of mankind. Humans were around when the most recent "super volcano" erupted, what is now Lake Toba. Most scientists say that there could have been around 30 females left in the whole world. So it is very unlikely that "all" humans will die. It is more reasonable to say that 99.5% of humans would die.
2007-03-11 04:13:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL in Yellowstone National Park in the state of Wyoming.
2007-03-11 04:01:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole place is the volcano. It bulged up a section and shifted a lake. Huge calderas.
2007-03-11 04:01:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Cacapoopoopeepeeshire.
2007-03-11 03:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think it is actually called a caldera.
2007-03-11 04:00:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋