Yellowstone National Park has long captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike, particularly due to its supervolcano, which has featured prominently in disaster films and existential ...

but the effects away from Yellowstone would be minimal most likely." Smaller eruptions have occurred over the last 160,000 years or so, with two of note within the crater, or Caldera, formed by ...

Entombed at the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, teeth from the rhino fossils were analyzed by researchers at the ...

Scientists have found previously undocumented ash deposits buried beneath the Lava Creek Tuff in Wyoming — and at least one ...

The Yellowstone caldera has been eroded ... the land swallowed itself in the course of a few days. The effects of the past eruptions are nevertheless profoundly felt in the present.

The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa. Thankfully, Yellowstone has never ...

Today, Yellowstone remains a place of low volcanic risk. Sure, there are sometimes small explosions stoked by hot water and ...

The most recent supervolcanic eruption on Earth occurred approximately ... today is located in the United States: the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming. Although it lies beneath the serene and ...

Popocatépetl (Mexico) Last eruption: Ongoing since the early 2000s Effects of a ... "scientists revealed that Yellowstone National Park likely won't experience a supervolcano eruption within ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...