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Thursday, April 29, 2004


Damn geologists, you can never trust 'em. Just when you think that Yellowstone was about to explode, they come back and tell us that they made it all up.
Here's a reason to breathe easier: Civilization probably won't be crippled anytime soon by a pulverizing volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park.

New research indicates there is probably not a huge pot of magma brewing beneath Yellowstone that's building up to a superviolent eruption thousands of times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

"If something like that was cooking up right now we'd see the evidence, and we don't," said Drew Coleman, an assistant geology professor at the University of North Carolina.
If you can't trust an assistant geology professor from North Carolina when it comes to issues about the Yellowstone area, really, who can we trust?



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