Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a team of geoscientists has uncovered new evidence ...

Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, geologists look ...

Yellowstone National Park has long captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike, particularly due to its supervolcano, which has featured prominently in disaster films and existential ...

In and around Yellowstone Lake—which lies near the caldera's center—Morgan and colleagues have identified several areas heavily pocked by past hydrothermal explosions. The pits, which appear ...

"The great basin," he wrote ... The "hot spot" responsible for the Yellowstone caldera has erupted dozens of times in the past, going back some 18 million years. Since the hot spot is rooted ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

A group of US Geological Survey (USGS) geologists have discovered signs of rhyolitic volcanism in the northeast-shifting Yellowstone caldera. The Yellowstone Caldera, a volcanic caldera and ...

For an area like Yellowstone, it’s a great fit. With this approach ... storage zone lies under the northeast part of Yellowstone Caldera, with a volume comparable to the smallest past caldera ...

One of the most closely studied and potentially dangerous supervolcanoes today is located in the United States: the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming. Although it lies beneath the serene and scenic ...

The long outline of the Yellowstone Caldera, nicely visible from the top ... Have we vastly improved this great area since the bad old days of commercial poaching and vandalism, governmental ...

But the stand of trees is hiding a rhyolite lava flow, a thick type of lava that tends to form short, chunky flows throughout the Yellowstone Caldera. The new thermal feature stems from the base ...