posted on Oct, 6 2009 @ 01:07 PM
Maybe it's because I watched Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea that I have water on the brain. That and the news. Floods in the Philippines, a
tsunami in Somoa and the earthquake in Indonesia. Before the quake in Indonesia, the area had heavy rains. It not only led to the ground being
unstable, which caused increased destruction, the rainfall could have lubricated the fault and been the catalyist for the quake. And I also have water
on the brain because the vast country in which I live, we have had the worst summer anyone can remember. Most of Canada has had a summer with below
average temps and incredible amounts of rain. It's never been so green.
Understanding the dynamics of water is the key to understanding Yellowstone. In fact water is key to understanding life and everything on our
planet. Recently a probe sent by India to the moon has found water. Nothing has shaped human history and nothing will be more important to determining
our future than water. Maybe I have water on the brain because I was knee deep in a river last night when I was fishing. I digress.
The first article I'll provide states that as the last ice age ended, the melting glaciers allowed a massive resurrgence of volcanic activity.
The glaciers acted a cap on our bottle of cola. When the cap lost it's seal the bottle overflowed. The glaciers not only acted as a seal by it's
incredible mass, it acted as natural cooling system. Magma that rose to the surface would lose it's heat as it was transfer to the cooler crust and
would sink back into the mantle. Right now glaciers cover volcanoes in Iceland, Greenland and Antartica.
The second article is only relevent if you notice that the researchers suggest that the 2004 Sumatran earthquake changed the fluids (water) in
the San Andreas fault. It's the water that the researchers are interested and how it relates to microquakes in the San Andreas and how large quakes
can change this configuration. Maybe it's just me, but whenever there is a large quake, the motion under Old Faithful seems extremely dramatic and
long lived. We know that research has linked large Alaskan quakes to changes in Yellowstones geyers. If you want to understand Yellowstone or
understand anything that happens on this planet, think water. Find out what role water is playing in an event and you'll understand the why and the
how of a matter.
dsc.discovery.com...
sciencedude.freedomblogging.com...
Here's one more water story making headlines. Southern India, which had been experiencing a terrible drought, has now had no stop rain and record
flooding.
www.guardian.co.uk...
[edit on 6-10-2009 by Robin Marks]