The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110957   Message #2335359
Posted By: Rapparee
07-May-08 - 09:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Volcano active, slept for ten thousand years
Subject: RE: BS: Volcano active, slept for ten thousand yea
The last time the Yellowstone Caldera acted up was 640,000 years ago, not a million. It's blown about every 600,000 years, so it's overdue. Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve was created by vulcanism about 2,000 year back and the area was, at that time, inhabited by the ancestors of the modern Shoshone; the event is noted in Shoshone history.