Melt fractions above 40% are necessary to generate enough pressure to cause an eruption, the authors noted, and the magma in each storage chamber beneath Yellowstone is less than 20% melt.

Yellowstone ... deeper magma body, likely composed of basalt — Earth’s most primitive magma type and the heat engine that helps to generate and sustain the shallower rhyolite magma chamber.

Yellowstone's geothermal wonders hide an active volcanic system. Recent studies suggest the northeastern magma body could cause a future eruption. Experts monitor the situation with advanced ...

Seismic imaging of the Yellowstone system has also identified a deeper magma body, likely composed of basalt—Earth’s most primitive magma type and the heat engine that helps to generate and sustain ...

In the paper, a group of researchers says that magma levels beneath the Yellowstone Caldera are greater than we previously believed. But there’s no reason for people to worry, as the Yellowstone ...

The geophysical techniques that allow us to image the magma beneath Yellowstone ― as in a recent study that provided a view of multiple separate magma reservoirs ― work similarly. These ...

One of Earth’s most famous supervolcanoes sits under Yellowstone National Park, and after lying dormant for 160,000 years, it is beginning to twitch. Current investigations have established shifting ...

The northeastern area of Yellowstone shows changes in magma distribution, although this region maintained geological stability for more than 160 thousand years. Scientists at the Yellowstone Volcano ...

It’s fair enough that not all nations have access to it because not all nations are situated on top of a magma chamber that can be extracted for thermal juice. That being said, those who have it ...

Johnson, Science Communication Associate at EarthScope Consortium. A number of studies have given us fascinating images showing Yellowstone’s magma reservoirs. But how are those images created?