But Yellowstone emits an estimated 45,000 tons of carbon dioxide daily, and it's impossible to get that much gas out of that volume of molten rock. And the plume of hot mantle material is far too ...

The Yellowstone caldera, a giant crater caused by a previous eruption, measures 40 miles by 25 miles and sits in the northwest corner of Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park.

Obsidian Cliff is the result of thick, rhyolite lava flows from the last caldera eruption 180,000 years ago. Image credit: USGS/S.R. Brantley A popular subject among doomsayers, the Yellowstone ...

YELLOWSTONE scientists discovered the magma pocket hiding below Yellowstone National Park is more than double the size they originally thought, according to statistics.

With more trips planned for this fall and next summer, there is strong hope that the map will be done before the park's 150th Anniversary in 2022!

This method allowed the researchers to create high-resolution maps to a depth of between 492 and 2,296 feet (150 to 700 m) and low-resolution maps to a maximum of 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers), Finn ...