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

1 in the journal Nature, found that rather than being stored in one big blob under Yellowstone, melted magma lurks in four separate reservoirs within the crust of the caldera. To the west ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Richard Tollo, emeritus professor ...

A number of studies have given us fascinating images showing Yellowstone’s magma reservoirs. But how are those images created ...

The study, recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, adds information to the constant speculation about when the Yellowstone caldera could once again erupt. The newly clarified picture ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Yellowstone supervolcano appears to be bigger than scientists previously expected.

A study on the Yellowstone Caldera, located at the center of the eponymous park and is one of the largest volcanic systems in the world, identified how much magma is currently beneath the caldera ...