Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

Large explosive eruptions occur in Yellowstone around once every 700,000 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

They found volcanic activity is shifting to the northeast as the North American tectonic plate over the Yellowstone hotspot continues to shift southwest. But because the magma below Yellowstone is ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano ...

“Nowhere in Yellowstone do we have regions that are ... plate continues inching to the west-southwest over the volcanic hot spot underneath. However, Bennington said, it’s unlikely to affect ...

Deep within the Yellowstone Caldera, the bowl-shaped rock cauldron at the heart of Yellowstone National Park, there’s a clue ...

Yellowstone, with its renowned hot springs ... the North American plate continues to move west-southwest over the volcanic hotspot beneath, the impacts of which are unlikely to occur in our ...

The supervolcano is not the enormous mound ... Basalt magma is highly mobile and wells up from the mantle deep beneath the Yellowstone hotspot. It’s also dense and contains concentrations ...

When Yellowstone erupts again ... measurements as pockets of high subterranean conductivity. These magma hotspots aren't really underground pools like aquifers but rather a honeycomb mix of ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist ...