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Thread #79140   Message #1432309
Posted By: Metchosin
11-Mar-05 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Yellowstone to blow-up!!
Subject: RE: BS: Yellowstone to blow-up!!
Relax people, not only do "scientists" have great difficulty modeling and predicting future events, sometimes they can't even get their facts straight.

I was at this Cascadia Subduction Zone site yeaterday and was suprised to note the statement, "hence the lack of volcanic activity in Canada", despite the fact that they have Mt. Meager and Mt Garabaldi, in the Garabaldi Volcanic Belt just north of Vancouver, marked on their map near the top of the page.

If vocanic activity doesn't occur in Canada, that is news to me, especially since I was involved with the radio carbon dating of some material from the Tseax Cone in the Stikine Volcanic Belt, when I worked as a Parks Technician in BC Interpretation Assessment back in the 70's.

The material we had dated, determined that the last eruption at the cinder cone was only 220 years ago, less than a blink of an eye in the geological timescale. While it has been awhile, just over 2000 years since Mt Meager spewed, again that is a very young volcano in a geologicial sense and the geothermal events there are still ongoing.