Abstract - Artistic impression of a super volcanic eruption

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

For what ever it is worth. I found myself in an art session not sure what to paint by way of an Abstract Painting.
I thought it would be nice to imagine a mass eruption like the Deccan Traps or the Siberian Traps.

This is my attempt for a FUTURE MASS ERUPTION :-

Edited February 7, 2014 by Mike Smith Cosmos

[studiot]

And everything went blank?

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

And everything went blank?

 

Give me time , I had not yet uploaded the Picture !

 

 

Of course you are right. You will notice the tall building in the way of a giant sunami wave coming from the mass eruption.

 

It would all go blank ! Indeed !

Edited February 7, 2014 by Mike Smith Cosmos

[studiot]

Sorry I should have included one of these.

 

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

And everything went blank?

 

Sorry I should have included one of these.

 

 

As you Know, Because I Know you Know. But for the benefit of other viewers, The

 

Deccan Traps in upper India, possibly initially set off by an incoming Asteroid , opened up a great split in the earths crust, and magma of inordinate quantity breached the crust, pouring out vast quantities of molten mantle like a giant hemoridge . this continued for thousands if not millions of years spreading across northern India., thus making the Deccan Trapps. Similarly with the Siberian Trapps in Eastern Russia on another occasion.

 

My artists impression of a possible future Mass eruption shows a similar hemmorage starting to flow out of the initial super volcano ( say like the one under yellowstone park in USA). This could be in the far future . However sections of continental crust could be uplifted and magma in vast quantities could flow like a ruptured artery . Ocean sea water could be disturbed in the process, causing giant Sunami's as illustrated in blue and turquoise. When hitting landfall , Giant buildings could have wave impacts as illustrated in white.

 

This is of course, not predicted, any time soon. But is probably inevitable at some point in the future.! So ,this is my Artistic Licence allowing a possible glimpse at a location , that would not be good to watch first hand.

 

You might well wonder what the crossing white lines are illustrating in the middle of the swirling , swell of the Ocean ?

 

mike

Edited February 7, 2014 by Mike Smith Cosmos

[Ophiolite]

 

 

... that would not be good to watch first hand.

It would be bloody excellent to watch firsthand. It's the immediate aftermath that would not be good.

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

It would be bloody excellent to watch firsthand. It's the immediate aftermath that would not be good.

I read a science fiction story some years ago ,by an author called Baxter , who has a scientific background like Arthur c Clark and Isaac Asimov . It was about the attack of the earth by some unseen overlords and airlifting off of the population off the Earth before it was destroyed from within the core. The story writer remained behind and described .....as one of the techtonic plates reared up from under the ocean and he described the edge and underside of the plate as it towered above him (just before he met his end ) . It was a mental image that has stuck with me to this day ... Absolutely awesome ...

 

 

I have done a very simple painting of my visit to the Cambrian- Precambrian times of my feet in a shallow sea with trilobites about my feet. I will put it up if I can find it. I have been on a bit of a painting spree and I am buried alive in drawings and paintings !

 

......Not to mention all the rocks and geology books. My wife is going berserk ! ...

 

Mike

Edited February 8, 2014 by Mike Smith Cosmos

[Johnny Electriglide]

Hi, Mike. There is the hope that one very large and due volcano can cause huge crop losses with a volcanic partial winter, which could collapse civilization and the human population enough to stop thermageddon, if within the next nine years. Katla, southern Iceland--due NOW.

Two tsunamis due also, are La Palma in the Atlantic, devestating the US East Coast and many other countries, and the worst nightmare---Cascadia. I had to move out of Seattle because of the case of heebee jeebees . Either could collapse the US and then world economy which would also set off a collapse.

To me, it is really something that our only hope of survival as a species is catastrophe.

The hope for Yellowstone to do it, is just at least 2K yrs. away, and its 10*F cooling would not be enough if AETM hits first with +29 to 32*F. Maybe another very large asteroid hit? Unlikely within 13 million years, but possible. What else could stop Anthropocene Thermal Maximum from its 86% ELE? We only have 9 yrs. before the Arctic Tundra methane self release positive feedback is unstoppable. The "Methane Turnover" Natural reaction sequence. Tipping points; open ocean self warming-passed, tundra methane without a 90% HGHG reduction 2023, oceanic methane deposits self release from 2100 to 2500, and finally the waters give up their dissolved CO2 in the heat and so does the land--the fourth tipping point.

What else could prevent it? Maybe the ridiculous idea of a "limited nuclear war". Possibly forcing Yellowstone magma chamber to blow with strategically drilled and placed hydrogen bombs?

NO, I HOPE for Katla to save us in a near super eruption. Even though most will die.

[Airbrush]

What else could prevent it? Maybe the ridiculous idea of a "limited nuclear war". Possibly forcing Yellowstone magma chamber to blow with strategically drilled and placed hydrogen bombs?

NO, I HOPE for Katla to save us in a near super eruption. Even though most will die.

We must figure out how to allow Yellowstone (and other super volcanos) to erupt "just enough" to prevent a major, catastrophic eruption later. Nuclear weapons are too broad a brush to use. Instead drill tunnels into Yellowstone, with the final excavation done by conventional explosives. This could, theoretically and hopefully, get it to let off pressure over the next several hundred years. If not, the USA will become history and the rest of the world will be a big mess.

Edited April 22, 2014 by Airbrush

[Acme]

We must figure out how to allow Yellowstone (and other super volcanos) to erupt "just enough" to prevent a major, catastrophic eruption later. Nuclear weapons are too broad a brush to use. Instead drill tunnels into Yellowstone, with the final excavation done by conventional explosives. This could, theoretically and hopefully, get it to let off pressure over the next several hundred years. If not, the USA will become history and the rest of the world will be a big mess.

Poppycock. Drilling a hole into a magma chamber would lead to catastrophic decompression. There would be no stopping or otherwise controlling it.

 

Edit: eruption simulation

Edited April 22, 2014 by Acme

[Airbrush]

Ok then, just get ready for the end of the human race within the next few thousand years. Nothing can be done.

Edited April 22, 2014 by Airbrush

[Acme]

Ok then, just get ready for the end of the human race within the next few thousand years. Nothing can be done.

You & I won't be here in even the next century so we hardly need care about the next few thousand years. Given how well humans have done with a good number of past super volcano eruptions, and without current technology no less, there is no logical basis to conclude they will do any worse now or in the future. I should be so lucky as to croak witnessing a super volcano; beats the hell out of a common stroke at the market any day.

[Airbrush]

You & I won't be here in even the next century so we hardly need care about the next few thousand years. Given how well humans have done with a good number of past super volcano eruptions, and without current technology no less, there is no logical basis to conclude they will do any worse now or in the future. I should be so lucky as to croak witnessing a super volcano; beats the hell out of a common stroke at the market any day.

A good heart attack or stroke may cause death faster and easier than breathing volcanic dust and suffocating on cement in your lungs.

 

Poppycock. Drilling a hole into a magma chamber would lead to catastrophic decompression. There would be no stopping or otherwise controlling it.

That may be true for now, but in a few hundred years, who knows what can be done to make a super volcano harmless? Don't give up on the idea, just yet. Wait and see. We may even learn to control the weather.

Edited April 24, 2014 by Airbrush

[Acme]

A good heart attack or stroke may cause death faster and easier than breathing volcanic dust and suffocating on cement in your lungs.

 

That may be true for now, but in a few hundred years, who knows what can be done to make a super volcano harmless? Don't give up on the idea, just yet. Wait and see. We may even learn to control the weather.

I will not go gently into that good night; I'll rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 

I'm not holding my breath for 100 seconds, much less 100 years.