It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years. Unlike normal volcanoes, which tend to produce large cone-shaped mountains made of ash and lava, supervolcano eruptions (defined being at least an 8 on the
The geysers are really cool, and the geothermal springs, but I thought the geography/terrain and animals were just as if not more impressive. Perhaps except for the uniqueness of the geothermal features which I’m not sure where else can be found in the US. So if a power plant could keep the “big one” from happening and we get to keep the other “wildness,” I wouldn’t be too adverse.