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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have found previously undocumented ash deposits buried beneath the Lava Creek Tuff in Wyoming — and at least one ...

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 the 1960s, geologists Ray Wilcox and Glen Izett created ashfall maps for past Yellowstone eruptions by driving around the western United States, identifying Yellowstone eruption deposits based on ...

By Williamborg – Own work – based on markup of USGS map Source ... The probability of a supervolcanic eruption occurring at any moment is exceedingly low on a human timescale. For instance, while ...

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

USGS scientists emphasise that "there is no evidence that a catastrophic eruption at Yellowstone is imminent" and consider it unlikely to happen within the next few centuries. They also note that ...

Entombed at the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, teeth from the rhino fossils were analyzed by researchers at the ...

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