Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild outbursts ...
When Yellowstone erupts again, as it certainly will, it won't matter whether people live in Bozeman, Montana or Cody, Wyoming -- they'll be just as dead. But new seismological research has finally ...
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Mark Stelten, research geologist with ...
The reservoirs, they found, hold basaltic magma in their lower parts and rhyolitic magma in their upper parts. The team was even able to make estimations regarding amounts—they found there was a melt ...
With its famous hot springs and gushing geysers, Yellowstone is one the most iconic national parks in the country and astonishes millions of visitors every year. Those awe-inspiring sights are thanks ...
Many hands have been wrung over Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano, which has the power to deliver global catastrophe with a single eruption. If the volcano exploded tomorrow, it would cover ...
Over its 2.1-million-year history, Yellowstone has erupted in excess of 4,000 km3 of rhyolite magma. While it is well known that a large rhyolite magmatic system has existed underneath Yellowstone ...
Yellowstone's volcanic past reveals a dynamic system of repeated caldera-forming eruptions and smaller lava flows, with magma ...