Yellowstone is what’s called a hotspot, where large areas of molten material stay in one place as the Earth’s tectonic plates move around. This type of magma is called “basaltic ...

Beyond that, the image is consistent with our big-picture view of the Yellowstone hotspot, which has left a trail of eruptions across western North America, ...

It is fed by the "Yellowstone Hotspot," where hot plumes of magma rise from deep within the Earth's mantle. In the last 2.1 million years, ...

Steamboat Geyser eruption seen through the trees in Yellowstone National Park on September 17, 2018. (Photo by Jacob W. Frank/ National Park Service) The Yellowstone region today is wonderland. It ...

The track of the Yellowstone hotspot is defined by a series of old caldera systems that get older the farther to the southwest you get from Yellowstone. Because they are ...

The geologic history of the Eastern Snake River Plain and the Yellowstone Hotspot track are closely intertwined, but the Western Snake River Plain has a different story to tell.

An apocalypse named Yellowstone. Every 700,000 years or so, the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts. ... Basalt magma is highly mobile and wells up from the mantle deep beneath the Yellowstone hotspot.

In geology, a hotspot is a location on the Earth's surface that has experienced active volcanism for a long period of time. Hotspots were thought to be caused by a narrow stream of hot mantle ...

Yellowstone National Park's recent hydrothermal explosion is more common than you might think. ... The park is also a hotspot for seismic activity, with an average of 1,500 to 2,500 earthquakes ...

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.

The post-conference tour followed the track of the Yellowstone hotspot across Idaho to the world's first national park. Smith took the group around parts of Yellowstone, ending up at Biscuit Basin ...