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

In this sense, the results from the magnetotelluric study are very similar to studies of the Yellowstone magmatic system using seismic data, which also suggest an overall low proportion of ... the ...

a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who pioneered research on the Yellowstone volcano in the 1960s. With the magma chamber emptied, the surface collapses. The entire domed region simply falls into ...

A detailed look at Yellowstone's magma storage system finds that only one region is likely to host liquid magma in the long term. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

According to an analysis published last week in the journal Nature, while a significant amount of magma is beneath the Yellowstone Caldera, it is stored in small, separate pockets rather than a ...

In the past 2 million years, Yellowstone has undergone three huge, caldera-forming eruptions – those that create the cauldron-like basins on Earth's surface when a subterranean magma chamber ...

The gorgeous colors of Yellowstone National Park's Grand Prismatic hot spring are among the park's myriad hydrothermal features created by the fact that Yellowstone is a supervolcano -- the ...

Each year, Yellowstone National Park attracts ... Earth’s surface—such as a layer of solid rock or a chamber full of piping hot magma. For this study, however, researchers used a technique ...

A team from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), publishing last week in Nature Geoscience also measured the percentage of rock in Yellowstone magma reservoirs that's actually melted.

the results from the magnetotelluric study are very similar to studies of the Yellowstone magmatic system using seismic data, which also suggest an overall low proportion of liquid magma beneath ...

Despite an explosive summer at Yellowstone National ... it released so much magma from its underground reservoir that the ground above collapsed into the magma chamber, forming a massive ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park. A new study suggests that future ...