The interactive Geology of Yellowstone Map has been updated with new data. Check out recently added map layers that highlight Yellowstone’s monitoring instrumentation, hydrothermal features, and ...

The Wyoming State Geological Survey — one of the YVO member institutions — has created an online interactive map all about Yellowstone. The Geology of Yellowstone Map displays a wealth of ...

Revealing new data has pulled back the curtain on a network of "geological hazards" sitting beneath a portion of Yellowstone National Park, according to scientists studying the land in that region.

A map showing how the ground around the Yellowstone supervolcano has deformed over the last two years has been released by the U.S. Geological Survey. The map, by USGS geophysicist Chuck Wicks ...

Back in the 1960s and 70s, a group of United States Geological Survey mappers set out to determine what rocks made up the Yellowstone Volcanic Field. Identifying the rocks that make up a region is ...

One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1925, a mountainside in the Gros Ventre Range in northwest Wyoming collapsed, unleashing one of the largest landslides in North America‘s recorded history. A century ...

Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild ...

A series of “hidden” geological hazards has been uncovered in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park, including active faults that could pose earthquake threats to communities in ...

“The western part of the Yellowstone caldera is waning,” said Ninfa Bennington, ... They tend to reoccur about every 600,000 to 800,000 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

This is equivalent to the volume of magma released roughly 1.3 million years ago during the Mesa Falls eruption—the second most recent caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone.

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 most recent eruption of the Yellowstone caldera occurred approximately 640,000 years ago, while the last lava flow happened around 70,000 years ago.These events, though ancient by human ...