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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
Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, is a Quaternary caldera complex and volcanic plateau spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. It is driven by the Yellowstone hotspot and is largely within Yellowstone National Park .
In this case Yellowstone could be expiring. It could be another 1–2 million years (as the North American Plate moves across the Yellowstone hotspot) before a new supervolcano is born to the northeast, and the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field joins the ranks of its deceased ancestors in the Snake River Plain. [12]
Yellowstone is one of the planet's largest volcanic systems, a place where a plume of the Earth's molten core rises up through the solid rock of crust, heating and melting it to form reservoirs of ...
Yellowstone volcano. While the wildlife and panoramic vistas are a huge draw for visitors to Yellowstone, so too are the spectacular 10,000 geothermal features within the park. The supervolcano ...
The drama imagines the reaction of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory to a super eruption at the Yellowstone Caldera. Producer Ailsa Orr credits YVO scientists as inspiration for the film's three primary characters. [10] The YVO Scientist-in-Charge reflected on the hype associated with volcanism at Yellowstone in a 2005 magazine article. [11]
Scientists discover that the volcano under Yellowstone is much bigger than previously thought.
McDermitt Caldera is possibly the oldest of a sequence of calderas formed by the Yellowstone hotspot. [6] The caldera was preceded by a lava dome that had been built by volcanic eruptions of rhyolite starting about 19 million years ago. [3] [4] This lava dome collapsed into a caldera in an eruption between 16.37 and 16.41 million years ago. [6]