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Indeed, Yellowstone has become one of the best places in the world to study caldera systems. The 1878 geological map provided a foundation upon which all of that subsequent work has been built.
With the help of lidar technology — which used a sensor and laser to map the ground ... published by the U.S. Geological Survey. The column, called Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles, is written ...
To aid with the assessment of the Biscuit Basin hydrothermal explosion, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory scientists installed ...
The United State Geological Survey is reporting a small eruption occurred at the Black Diamond Pool in the Biscuit Basin, which was the site of ahydrothermal e ...
Yellowstone National Park contains the world’s largest concentration of geothermal features. In fact, this is the primary ...
according to a team led by seismologist Ninfa Bennington of the US Geological Survey. "On the basis of the volume of rhyolitic melt storage beneath northeast Yellowstone Caldera, and the region's ...
This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from the United States Geological ... made previously to map out the distribution of magma beneath the Yellowstone Caldera—but such have ...
This allows scientists to map the locations of ... which was previously unseen by other geological studies. Interestingly, the western portion of the Yellowstone caldera is beginning to lose ...
fieldwork over the past year has provided new geological evidence that "the formation of Yellowstone Caldera was much more complex than previously thought." A caldera is a large crater that forms ...
This Yellowstone caldera is what is causing geysers to erupt. The U.S. Geological Survey says that the geological activity in the park can appear to be a sign of an impending disaster, the ...
“The western part of the Yellowstone caldera is waning,” said Ninfa Bennington, a volcano geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and lead author on a paper in Wednesday’s edition of ...