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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

New research has pinpointed where theYellowstone supervolcano will likely erupt. It won't blow today, but future eruptions will likely center on the northeastern side of the national park, the new ...

Astute research has revealed that magma is shifting underground in the northeast part of Yellowstone, the last evidence of volcanic activity 160000 years ago. This finding, demonstrated by YVO ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s look at a popular example – the supervolcano resting under Yellowstone National Park. This volcano is ridiculously ...

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 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 ...