Despite the study confirming that Yellowstone’s magma is more solid than liquid, Michael Poland emphasized the need to focus on more immediate risks and hazards in the park rather than ...

Sitting atop an active volcanic caldera, Yellowstone, America's first National Park, is home to more geological hydrothermal features (geysers, mud pots, hot springs, fumaroles) than are found in ...

An expert from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory has revealed some of the most likely impacts of an eruption in the famed national park.

Large explosive eruptions occur in Yellowstone around once every 700,000 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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 ...

The recent survey shows that the magma within them has not stood still. It now appears to be shifting to the northeast of the Yellowstone Caldera. For the past 160,000 or so years, the magma ...

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 and ...

SEE ALSO: What will happen when the next supervolcano erupts, according to NASA There are different reservoirs, or pods, of magma below the Yellowstone Caldera, which is the sprawling basin formed ...

It’s also one of the largest volcanoes on Earth. The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in ...

The study also suggests that the primary focus of activity may be shifting outside of the caldera formed by ... consistent with our big-picture view of the Yellowstone hotspot, which has left ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with ...