A slow-motion disaster continued unfolding in the Jackson Wyoming Jackson today YSNP!!!!!!!

But the threat is real and authorities are enforcing an evacuation order in hopes of avoiding injuries. Town officials first noticed significant hill movement April 4. They evacuated 42 homes and apartment units April 9.

By Saturday morning, the shifting earth had bulged a road and a parking lot at the foot of the hill by as much as 10 feet. The groundswell pushed a small town water pump building 15 feet toward West Broadway, the town's main drag.

[link to www.nydailynews.com]

a inch a day

YSNP on same day this started


Yellowstone bison fleeing impending supervolcano? No. (+video)

[link to www.csmonitor.com]


get ready

I have been gone but if this has not been done yet needs pin

The northern and eastern parts of Jackson Hole are mostly outcrops of faulted and folded Mesozoic rocks with Paleozoic rocks underlying the structures at depth. This part of Jackson Hole is not as deep and does not contain the great thicknesses of late Tertiary rocks found farther west. Some of these structures extend northward into Yellowstone National Park, and at one time may have extended all the way across Yellowstone into Montana. The Yellowstone caldera and the melting of the crust associated with the Yellowstone hot spot has obliterated any evidence of Jackson Hole and the Teton uplift that might have extended northward. Other landforms in Jackson Hole proper are evidence of processes that have occurred in the very recent geologic past (the last half a million years). Great thicknesses of glacial ice once occupied parts of Jackson Hole during this time, scouring large lake basins, eroding into bedrock as much as 1,000 feet above the present basin floor, and leaving glacial deposits such as moraines, streams of glacial outwash, and ice-dammed lakes. Clearly, Jackson Hole is one of the best places to see many aspects of Wyoming’s more recent geology, and in the Tetons, some of Wyoming’s oldest geology

[link to www.wsgs.uwyo.edu]


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