Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Despite the impressive size of Yellowstone National Park (about 8,992 km2, or 2.2 million acres), the total surface area covered by thermal areas is only about 70 km2 (17,300 acres)—less than 1% of ...

Instead of a cone with a hole, the caldera is an interconnected maze of gas and water covering almost 60 miles of Wyoming’s northwest corner, along with parts of Montana and Idaho.

This is why calculating plume heights from past eruptions is important for understanding the potential impacts of future eruptions on aviation. For a volcanic eruption the size of Yellowstone’s ...

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But Yellowstone's rhyolitic stores are still surprisingly small. Theoretically, they could power an eruption the size of Yellowstone's smallest caldera-forming eruption, the researchers write.

Yellowstone National Park isn’t going to erupt anytime soon, and a new study from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has proven it’s less likely than ever. Ninfa Bennington was the lead author ...

Scientists are tracking changes at the giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park, but they say there's no need to worry at the moment. “The western part of the Yellowstone ...

In driving through the mountains and valleys that lead to wonderland, take a moment to appreciate the landscape you are traversing. Those areas today exemplify what Yellowstone used to look like a few ...

The first volcanic eruptions from the Yellowstone region began at least 2.2 million years ago, and the first of three great caldera-forming eruptions — that which deposited the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff ...

Any explosions that might have occurred before that time were erased from the geologic record by all that ice. This is a map showing different types of thermal areas in Yellowstone National Park. Also ...