Morning Glory Pool Was Blue? (Yellowstone Monthly Update

Morning Glory Pool Was Blue? (Yellowstone Monthly Update - July 2024)

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Ай бұрын

The beautiful Morning Glory pool is located near Old Faithful. However, it has changed over time because of people and past climate. But how?
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@marilyncrowley3303 Ай бұрын

You’re a terrific communicator!

@melodieheisler368 24 күн бұрын

I so remember the blue. YNP was considered my backyard & about every 2-3 weeks we went there. As a little girl I HAD to see Morning Glory. I went back just 24 yrs ago & cried when I saw the color. I want to make 1 more trip there before I soon die, but I will skip Morning Glory & remember the gorgeous blue it once was.

@geri8666 22 күн бұрын

Isn't it possible to recover its former color?

@redneckcoder 22 күн бұрын

Last time I was there was the early 90s and I think by then it was already gone.

@John-vn8vw Ай бұрын

Thanks Mike! I never miss an update.

@rh5563 Ай бұрын

And this is after they vacuumed as much fodder as they could out. I watched a video a long time ago where they put a boat in Morning Glory Pool and did just that.

@usgs Ай бұрын

You can read about that cleanup and see a photo of the work at www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/whats-story-morning-glory. And the story of the boat they used -- named Little Dipper -- is at www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/yellowstones-spectacular-spring-story-grand-prismatic-and-little-dipper

@timroot4207 Ай бұрын

Thank you !

@lindagreen8532 Ай бұрын

Thank you for your great description and education, very nice.

@Geronimo122 Ай бұрын

Very nice now, but just love that old blue color-- great video!

@cindyrissal3628 Ай бұрын

I'll admit I haven't been to Yellowstone since I was a kid, but one of my most vivid memories is of the color of Morning Glory pool. How sad some people can't be responsible w/ their actions. I see so much fluff on social media about "OMG! We'll all be killed when Yellowstone erupts!!!" I would find it very interesting if you would do a talk sometime on what signs to look for if the cauldera ever gets close to eruption. (Well, on second thought, it might just serve to stoke the fires of panic in a few directions...🙄)

@JillKnapp Ай бұрын

I was there in 1985 and again in 1999, and I was blown away by how much things had changed, even back then. I wasn't sure if those changes were normal or not, but I remember feeling really sad about it. "Enshittification" was once a word reserved for the tech industry, but it's applicable everywhere now. 😔

@christinebailey9935 Ай бұрын

The impact people have in Yellowstone and other National Parks makes me think maybe there should be a rotation of closures of one or two parks each year. It would allow nature to reclaim and repair.

@buffalokay 27 күн бұрын

@@christinebailey9935or just really crack down on rules. Increase fines for littering. Arrest people who interact with wildlife. Set up more webcams around the parks… so you can keep a close eye on visitors.

@geri8666 22 күн бұрын

GOOD IDEA.

@mjjohnson6302 Ай бұрын

And yet once again we missed Steamboat by a couple of days. Thanks for all the reports.

@Pottery4Life Ай бұрын

Thank you very much, Mike.

@AntheaNairhappyA Ай бұрын

Beautiful pool. I am no where near to view places like this. Thank you for sharing. Peace and much love all the way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ♥️🌈

@mwheape Ай бұрын

Isn't it wonderful how we can "visit" places not near enough for us to go see. I love Everest videos.

@AntheaNairhappyA Ай бұрын

@@mwheape Yes, it certainly is. I like this channel because it fascinates me how our planet works.

@Twodogs503 Ай бұрын

Thanks well done as always.

@iancanuckistan2244 Ай бұрын

Thanks Mike, Happy Canada Day!

@Janika1982 Ай бұрын

Thank you!👌

@kimoswald4583 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@kimgower1347 24 күн бұрын

Steamboat is a bucket list 4 me. Couple year ago my daughter and i were headed for Norris because i "had a feeling". Topped a hill and there it was, still several miles distant, a HUGE steam/water cloud in the distance. When we got to Norris a ranger at the lot entrance told us it had gone off about 45 min ago. No parking in lot, it was full, as was everwhere else. Missed it by that much...sigh...😢

@JulieAiken 26 күн бұрын

I can't wait for the July report and what you have to say about Biscuit Basin's behavior. Say that 5 times fast! Thanks for all you do.

@nooneherebutuschickens5201 Ай бұрын

Love your updates, Mike! Was that snow or rain coming down?

@usgs Ай бұрын

A bit of snow on that day! Ah, summer in Yellowstone...

@nooneherebutuschickens5201 Ай бұрын

@@usgs99° here in the Dallas area. A light snow sounds delightful about now!

@Wut-A-Trip 23 күн бұрын

wow it was blue when i was 8 im 39 now..... it was so pretty it looks CRAZY diff now

@RWBHere 21 күн бұрын

Thanks. Dit's a real shame that people destroyed the former beauty of that pool. If it's not blue, the name makes no sense. Will the blue ever return, or is it a permanent change?

@underthetornado 24 күн бұрын

I remember the morning glory pool. I was 5. Im now 69😂❤

@briansivley2001 Ай бұрын

I've been wondering about something that has been said in a documentary about Yellowstone Volcano. During Yellowstone's previous major eruptions it wasn't known to have caused extinctions to animals at the time. I'm wondering why and how do we know that Yellowstone's previous major eruptions didn't cause extinctions and we hadn't noticed it? Like people compare The Yellowstone Caldera to Lake Toba in Indonesia calling it Lake Toba's Little Sister because they're very similar in size. What makes Yellowstone's previous eruptions different from what happened with Lake Toba when it erupted? Was it because when Toba erupted the climate was going towards a cooling phase so The Earth was headed towards another Glacial Period and Toba just made it happen more quicker than it would've happened if Toba didn't erupted and is that the main difference between the aftermath of Yellowstone's Eruptions and Lake Toba's Eruption? Because I would think that if a Supervolcano erupted something that is the equivalent to a asteroid impact then there'd be guaranteed extinctions for some animal species in the world.

@usgs 21 күн бұрын

The eruption that formed Yellowstone Caldera was similar in overall style to that of Toba, although at least 5 times smaller in size. Toba was immense. But no explosive volcanic eruption has ever been associated with a mass extinction of wildlife. The eruptions are locally devastating and do impact climate, but the impact is temporary, lasting on the order of a few years -- the aerosols in the atmosphere settle out over time. These eruptions happen more often than large asteroid impacts (the size of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, for example), but are not as devastating to the planet overall.

@muunokhoi 15 күн бұрын

What about the theory (genetic bottleneck evidence) that Toba reduced humanoid population to fewer than 5000 individuals. Is there substance to that idea?

@usgs 11 күн бұрын

@@muunokhoi That's been refuted to a significant degree. It seems that the precise timing doesn't line up (the "bottleneck" started before the eruption), and the impacts, based on climate records from lakes in East Africa and archeological sites in Africa and India, were not as significant as originally thought.

@sdw2is 24 күн бұрын

I remember when it was perfectly blue.

@ThomasValenta-zk1cu Ай бұрын

If you ask me that specific pool is the main primary entrance to the underground volcano there's a reason why the pool is all of those colors, it's a straight symbol pointing you right in the eye to the center of the volcano

@KeithLiss-wy7ge Ай бұрын

First time I saw Morninggolry pool was in 1962 it was still very blue . Back then, pesky bears 🐻 would come right up to the car

@jansenart0 Ай бұрын

Wow! That place looks soooo calm and amazing and warm! I can't WAIT to swim there!

@allenra530 Ай бұрын

Darwin Award available for swimming in Morning Glory and other Yellowstone Hot Springs.

@carolgonzales1410 Ай бұрын

I looked it up 159° and hotter. Get yourself a good medical plan.

@Planet-ICELAND 24 күн бұрын

..back to blue?

@katherenewedic8076 24 күн бұрын

people.

@ellenbryn Ай бұрын

I think it was still blue when I visited around 1990 I'll have to dig out old photos. How sad… I mean in the long scheme it's just a different set of bacteria colonizing a pool and a blip in the geological timescale but why do people feel the need to throw things in natural wonders?

@Valspartame_Maelstrom Ай бұрын

we have to stop putting question marks at the end of non-question sentences/statements.

@usgs Ай бұрын

It sounds like you don't care for that use of punctuation? 😁 (kidding)

@Valspartame_Maelstrom Ай бұрын

@@usgs how very dare you?!

@heatherjones6647 Ай бұрын

OMG people are so stupid throwing stuff into a natural pool.

@THOTH.x Ай бұрын

Just more fear porn

@usgs Ай бұрын

Not at all. As the video clearly states, Yellowstone remains at background levels of activity. The magma chamber is mostly solid, and there is no significant magmatic unrest. The odds of an eruption anytime soon are vanishingly small, and even if unrest did manifest, the most likely form of a future volcanic event is a lava flow, not a massive explosion. The most recent eruption of any kind was a lava flow that occurred 70,000 years ago. The biggest hazards in the Yellowstone region on human timescales are steam explosions and strong (M6+) earthquakes, neither of which directly involve magma or volcanism.

@akashaggy505 Ай бұрын

They lies theses people tell are crazy and getting worse an worse.😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ResortDog Ай бұрын

Not looking up, or down at a compass, isn't really an option for any scientist as time goes on, is it?

@borismedved835 Ай бұрын

I hope you're referring to the youtube clowns who believe that the long-dead (at least 70,000 years) former volcano's magma is going to be spewing out of the ground "soon." It's either that or the science is way beyond your understanding.

@PunaSquirrel Ай бұрын

Nice grammar🤙🏼

@you2angel1 Ай бұрын

Yeah good job! You condensed this down so well. This will definitely help me explain things to people when it comes to the environmental impact we have regarding our world's most beautiful Wonder Yellowston 🦬 °~•.☆.•~° Travertine countertops I would never. Granite baby! really cool backsplashes though.