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The caldera formed during the last of three supereruptions over the past 2.1 million years: the Huckleberry Ridge eruption 2.1 million years ago (which created the Island Park Caldera and the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff), the Mesa Falls eruption 1.3 million years ago (which created the Henry's Fork Caldera and the Mesa Falls Tuff), and the Lava ...
(The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area about 30 by 45 miles .)
This eruption of 2,450 km 3 (590 cu mi) of material is thought to be one of the largest known eruptions in the Yellowstone hotspot's history. This eruption, 2.1 million years ago, is the third most recent large caldera-forming eruption from the Yellowstone hotspot. It was followed by the Mesa Falls Tuff and the Lava Creek Tuff eruptions. [3]
A supervolcano is a volcano that has had an eruption with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 8, [1] the largest recorded value on the index. This means the volume of deposits for such an eruption is greater than 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles). [2] Location of Yellowstone hotspot over time. Numbers indicate millions of years before ...
Scientists working in Yellowstone National Park say the supervolvcano underneath may blow sooner than thought and could wipe out life on the planet. Yellowstone supervolcano may be only decades ...
The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, also known as the Yellowstone Supervolcano or the Yellowstone Volcano, is a complex volcano, volcanic plateau and volcanic field located mostly in the western U.S. state of Wyoming, but it also stretches into Idaho and Montana. [4] [5] It is a popular site for tourists. [6] Map of Yellowstone Volcano ash beds
The geyser erupted “fairly regularly” before 1920 and then went mostly dormant, except for a few irregular eruptions over the years, he said. The last eruption observed was in 1999 , Cowboy ...
Yellowstone hotspot: 1,000 Last large eruption in the Yellowstone National Park area estimated energy yield 875,000 megatons of tnt [39] [9] [10] Awasa Caldera: 1.09 Main Ethiopian Rift: 1,000 [40] Cerro Galán: 2.2 Catamarca Province, Argentina 1,000 Elliptical caldera is ~35 km wide [41] Paintbrush tuff (Tiva Canyon Member) 12.7 Southwestern ...