Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a team of geoscientists has uncovered new evidence ...

Scientists are tracking changes at the giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park, but they say there's no need to worry at the moment. “The western part of the Yellowstone ...

Yellowstone is famous for its volcanic landscapes, erupting geysers and colorful hot springs. The park is also unique because ...

Yellowstone is a living, breathing supervolcano. In the last 2.1 million ... The supervolcano would belch a giant umbrella cloud of ash into the sky. The cloud could cover a region 500 miles ...

Left behind is a giant caldera, from the Spanish word for "cauldron." The "hot spot" responsible for the Yellowstone caldera has erupted dozens of times in the past, going back some 18 million years.

One of the most closely studied and potentially dangerous supervolcanoes today is located in the United States: the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming. Although it lies beneath the serene and scenic ...

Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, geologists look ...

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 ...

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

But the stand of trees is hiding a rhyolite lava flow, a thick type of lava that tends to form short, chunky flows throughout the Yellowstone Caldera ... 600 feet into the sky, according to ...

A group of US Geological Survey (USGS) geologists have discovered signs of rhyolitic volcanism in the northeast-shifting Yellowstone caldera. The Yellowstone Caldera, a volcanic caldera and ...