Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

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Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected at Mount Rainier so far Tuesday morning in the largest such swarm at the active stratovolcano since 2009, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park. Long before Yellowstone ...

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Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are ...

NASA is keeping an eye on Yellowstone, but not for the reason you might think. While most people worry about the supervolcano ...

To trace Yellowstone’s magma chamber, past research has turned to the University of Utah’s array of permanent seismograph stations, which monitor seismic activity throughout Yellowstone. Readings ...

The USGS emphasizes that Yellowstone’s current activity—including minor earthquakes and geothermal features—is consistent with its behaviour over the past 140 years.

A small eruption (at West Thumb) is believed to have occurred as recently as 150,000 years ago. And an explosion some 13,000 years ago left a crater at Mary Bay on the edge of Yellowstone Lake.

There are different reservoirs, or pods, of magma below the Yellowstone Caldera, which is the sprawling basin formed during an immense eruption and dramatic collapse some 631,000 years ago.