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Report Copyright Violation | BRIDGE BAY MARINA Yellowstone Lake has some troubled waters [ link to trib.com] There are waves sloshing across the lake created by seismic activity that displace millions of tons of water.
All of that activity coupled with the fact that the lake overlies more than 250 hot water vents and the largest known hydrothermal explosion craters in the world has sparked an intensive three-year scientific study that launched last month.
He (Rob Sohn) compared the hydrothermal system to an automobile engine. The magma core that underlies Yellowstone is the hot engine. The hydrothermal system is the 300-degree water circulating through the engine that helps keep it somewhat cooler.
For the first time seismometers will be placed on the lake floor to measure earthquake activity, even small ones created by the flow of hydrothermal fluid.
Sohn was studying Lone Star Geyser in 2008-09 when a “major earthquake swarm” swept through the lake.
“The immediate question was: How did that affect the lake vents?” Sohn said. “No one had been there since 2005.”The hydrothermal system is the 300-degree water circulating through the engine that helps keep it somewhat cooler. |
