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Hike / auto / bus. The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, is a volcanic caldera and supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park in the Western United States. The caldera and most of the park are located in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming. The caldera measures 43 by 28 miles (70 by 45 ...
Number of earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park region (1973–2014) [14] Map of recent Yellowstone eruption fields, in comparison with a recent Long Valley Caldera eruption and Mount St. Helens. Wapi Lava field and King's Bowl blowout , northeast of Rupert, Idaho ; 2.270 ka ±0.15.
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
Yellowstone Caldera—Huckleberry Ridge Tuff: 2.059: Yellowstone hotspot: 2,450–2,500: One of the largest Yellowstone eruptions on record [27] [9] Nohi Rhyolite—Gero Ash-Flow Sheet 70 Honshū, Japan 2,200: Nohi Rhyolite total volume over 7,000 km 3 in 70 to 72 Ma, Gero Ash-Flow Sheet being the largest [28] Whakamaru: 0.254: Taupō Volcanic ...
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Yellowstone Lake is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. The lake is 7,732 feet (2,357 m) above sea level and covers 136 square miles (350 km 2) with 110 miles (180 km) of shoreline. While the average depth of the lake is 139 ft (42 m), its greatest depth is at least 394 ft (120 m ...
The caldera — a 50-mile-wide volcanic crater — is the remnant of a pair of massive volcanic eruptions thrown up by the Yellowstone hotspot as it wandered east to its current location. At its ...
The Huckleberry Ridge Tuff is a tuff formation created by the Huckleberry Ridge eruption that formed the Island Park Caldera that lies partially in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and stretches westward into Idaho into a region known as Island Park. [2] This eruption of 2,450 km 3 (590 cu mi) of material is thought to be one of the largest ...
Diamante Caldera–Maipo volcano complex (size: 20 x 16 km), Argentina-Chile; 450 ka; 450 cubic kilometers (108 cu mi) of tephra. [4] [46] Yellowstone hotspot; Yellowstone Caldera (size: 45 x 85 km); 640 ka; VEI 8; more than 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cu mi) of tephra (Lava Creek Tuff) [6]