Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...
Scientists have assessed Yellowstone's chances of eruption by measuring electronic currents flowing deep within the Earth ...
Site of half the world's active geysers and about the same size as Cyprus ... in ash and led to a global volcanic winter lasting for years. Now, Yellowstone's magma is on the move, according ...
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory ... the shallower rhyolite magma chamber. Magnetotelluric imaging ...
The Yellowstone ... into the volcano was that it has a 16 to 20 percent reservoir of melted rock on average. That is almost double the previous estimate of nine percent. Further, the magma ...
When Yellowstone erupts again ... like divot in the rock isn't fed by a narrow vent like typical volcanoes. Instead, a large magma pool sits right below a shallow surface rock layer.
A seismic survey challenges the long-standing belief that only active volcanoes have large magma bodies sitting beneath them.