Research Paper On Yellowstone

Yellowstone is the worlds first national park. It was origanally home to Native Americans who lived in the Yellowstone area for at least 11,000 years.The U.S. Army was first commissioned to oversee the park just after its establishment in late 1960. In 1917, administration of the park was transferred to the National Park Service. Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km2), mostly comprising lakes, rivers canyons and mountain ranges. The national park is located primarily in the state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congressand signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.

Created in 1872 by the department of the Interior, the park was developed by congress for preservation of its "natural curiosities or wonders and prohibiting wanton destruction of its fish and game" (defenders). Wolves were protected in Yellowstone.

Hawaii and Yellowstone are two of the most visited places each year because of their beautiful surroundings. What most people don't know about these places is that under the earth's crust molten lava is ripping each apart piece by piece. While Yellowstone is known as a super volcano, the big island of Hawaii is made up of five different volcanoes. They could both erupt at any minute. Those aren't the only similarities and differences of Yellowstone and Hawaii though.

Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest and oldest national parks in American history. Yellowstone was the first park to be protected by private investment on March 1, 1872, and the first to be put under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1918, no doubt due to its unique and inspiring landscape and geothermal features. In fact, Yellowstone National Park is home to half of the world’s total hydrothermal features. These awesome attractions draw an incredible amount of visitors, an average of two to three million each year, to Yellowstone’s immense landscape. The park has a total size of 28,125 square miles, is found in three distinct states, and is considered to be one of the largest

So maybe the pronghorn aren’t completely being wiped out from humans but the when throwing the factor of deep snow into the mix it is hard to believe that their population is dwindling from that factor. Overall pronghorns in Yellowstone National Park are not thriving because of the negative human interaction in correlation to their ecosystem.

From what I had learned, Yellowstone National Park was the first national park ever to be established in the world. It had over 3,500 square miles of beautiful scenery and wildlife. The park itself was mostly located in Wyoming, however, less than 5% was located in Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone has been a park since March 1st, 1872, and since then there have been hundreds of thousands of tourists that go there each year to see the amazing things it has to offer. Old Faithful, one of Yellowstone's main attractions, is a

“The human history of the Yellowstone region goes back more than 11,000 years. From then until to the very recent past, many groups of Native Americans used the park as their homes, hunting grounds, and transportation routes. These traditional uses of Yellowstone lands continued until a little over 200 years ago when the first people of European descent found their way into the park. In 1872 a country that had not yet seen its first centennial, established Yellowstone as the first national park in the world. A new concept was born and with it a new way for people to preserve and protect

Today was an exciting day, my family and I went on a trip to the Yellowstone National Park! I was shocked at the history of the park. The park has been around for almost 11,000 years. We had to take a plane because it is located almost in all of Wyoming, but does go into Montana and Idaho, so I got to visit three states. It is one of the United States well known parks and visited by millions, including myself. The tour guide was very helpful in giving us information about the park. The earliest visit recorded was back in the 1800s. The people of Montana did not want development of the land that lead to President Ulysses S. Grant to preserve the land and make it a park. The people refused to have mining and logging to destroy their land.

Feel free to stretch, it's been a long ride. We will be stopping by a restaurant later to get some lunch. In front of you, you can see Humphreys Peak, the tallest mountain in the San Francisco Peaks. The San Francisco Peaks is actually a volcanic mountain range and is part of the San Francisco volcanic field. The peaks were once a stratovolcano but is now eroded and are the remains of the volcano. It is the only stratovolcano in the San Francisco Volcanic Field. The tallest mountain, Humphreys Peak, is about twelve thousand, six hundred and thirty-three feet in elevation, which is also three thousand, eight hundred and fifty-one meters tall. In fact, Humphreys Peak is the tallest point in all of Arizona. Also in this area, are more than six hundred volcanoes. Most of the volcanoes found here are basalt cinder cones. These volcanoes are relatively small. They are also usually less than one thousand feet in elevation. Another fact about these basalt cinder cones is that they are formed within a range of a couple of months to a couple of years. The San Francisco Volcanic Field also has several lava domes. Lava domes are formed by dacite and rhyolite magmas. Both of those types of magma are very rich and high in silica. So, as a result, the dacite and rhyolite magmas are very viscous and thick. As a matter of fact, the magmas are so viscous is thick that when volcanoes erupt, the magma tends to pile up and form very steep sided masses, which are the domes.

Hawaii and Yellowstone are both major vacation destinations; they may seem completely different, but they are actually quite similar. A difference between them is that people go to Hawaii to see the volcanoes and go to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful and hot springs. Although many people may think this is a difference, it is actually a similarity because all of these things are volcanic activity caused by hotspots. Hotspots lie underneath both Yellowstone and Hawaii, but they cause different geological activity in both places. An example of how they are different is that Hawaii has the most active volcanoes on earth whereas Yellowstone's volcano is dormant.

The third eruption happened about 640,000 years ago, and spewed 240 cubic miles of material. This third eruption created the third and largest of Yellowstone’s calderas, Yellowstone Caldera, which is 30 by 45 miles in size. The pyroclastic lava flows from this eruption formed the north wall of the caldera and are visible from the south-facing cliffs east of Madison. (Solcomhouse) This third eruption is said to have vaporized an entire mountain range. Smaller eruptions have also helped to shape Today’s Yellowstone, such as one that occurred 174,000 years ago and created what is now the “West Thumb” of Yellowstone Lake. (National Park Service) Many sources say that a catastrophic eruption, such as those that have formed the three calderas at Yellowstone, is unlikely during the next several hundred years, but if one such eruption did occur it would devastate much of the United States and would have the potential to alter the global climate.

The supervolcano in Yellowstone had an earthquake swarm that hit more than 1,200 events. Most park roads in yellowstone are closed for the season because of safety precaution this event and there are currently 1,284 tremors. Together with frequent earthquakes, vigorous hydrothermal activity, and abundant emissions of volcanic gases, relatively slow movements of the ground surface attest to ongoing activity in the vast magmatic-tectonic system beneath Yellowstone National Park. Imperceptible to the naked eye, episodes of uplift, subsidence, and stretching or contraction of the surface are monitored by repeated surveys and networks of sensitive instruments operated by YVO and its partners. Yellowstone is one of the most seismically active areas

The Geyser Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A. is a geyser that has a relatively isolated source of seismic noise. The seismic behavior of this one geyser is similar to many volcanoes observed.

The geyser now known as Old Faithful was named by the first official United States government expedition into the area in 1870. It is named this because of how predictable it is to view. It erupts every 35-120 minutes, and eruptions last from 1 ½ - 5 minutes in length. They reach from 90-184 feet high! How amazing!

The Grand Prismatic Spring lies in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. It is a multicolored hot spring that heats the water in it at a high of 160 degrees-Fahrenheit. The Spring is 90 meters wide, 50 meters deep and produces approximately 560 gallons of water per minute. The Grand Prismatic Spring was discovered and named by the Hayden Expedition in 1871. The Hayden Expedition, along with trappers and hunters who had seen the Grand Prismatic Spring themselves, told of the many colors they saw in the Spring’s waters. A hot spring is a body of water that contains naturally hot water. The water in the hot spring is heated by magma beneath Earth’s surface. When the heated water reaches the surface, it begins to cool down. The cooler water begins