Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild outbursts ...
Some rhyolitic volcanos erupt abruptly and violently, while others are far more sedate in their eruptive behavior. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich geoscientist Professor Donald ...
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist with ...
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Yellowstone's hidden world: Inside the 640,000-year-old caldera few have seen
Most tourists who visit Yellowstone National Park snap photos of Old Faithful and stroll past bubbling mud pots, never ...
The reservoirs, they found, hold basaltic magma in their lower parts and rhyolitic magma in their upper parts. The team was even able to make estimations regarding amounts—they found there was a melt ...
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Yellowstone is one of the world’s largest magmatic systems – and it may be missing a key volcanic gas
According to Jennifer Lyn Lewicki, a research geologist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) California Volcano Observatory, Yellowstone's sulfur dioxide is not really missing. Instead, it ...
Volcanic eruptions are the most spectacular expression of the processes acting in the interior of any active planet. Effusive eruptions consist of a gentle and steady flow of lava on the surface, ...
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Mark Stelten, research geologist with ...
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