Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...

Yellowstone National Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why—the dynamic landscape ...

Yellowstone's magma system shows new activity, with the northeast sector possibly hosting future volcanic activity.

Languages: English. Despite widespread fears of a catastrophic "supervolcano" eruption, scientists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) have suggested that any eruptive event there would ...

That movement has now left one pool of molten material on the west of the caldera disconnected from any heat sources, which will likely allow it to cool. Meanwhile, the largest pool of near-surface ...

The data they retrieved allowed them to map Yellowstone's plumbing ... Theoretically, they could power an eruption the size of Yellowstone's smallest caldera-forming eruption, the researchers ...

Previous studies of Yellowstone had used the passage of earthquake waves through the caldera to try to gauge where liquid magma versus solid rock sat beneath the park. But waves can change their ...

For decades, researchers in and around Yellowstone National Park have used seismic waves — imagine giving the region an MRI — to map the hot ... when the Yellowstone caldera could once again ...

New research has pinpointed where theYellowstone supervolcano will likely erupt. It won't blow today, but future eruptions will likely center on the northeastern side of the national park, the new ...