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”, and it ...

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 ...

That movement has now left one pool of molten material on the west of the caldera disconnected from any heat sources, which will likely allow it to cool. Meanwhile, the largest pool of near-surface ...

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

Yellowstone National Park also formed because of a hotspot, which left a trail of volcanism through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming as the North American continent crept over it.

Basalt magma is highly mobile and wells up from the mantle deep beneath the Yellowstone hotspot. It’s also dense and contains concentrations of magnesium and iron. Rhyolite melt is thicker ...

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

Jennifer Lopez's love of the show Yellowstone just went to a whole new level. The pop star was spotted at a celebrity hotspot in Aspen, Colo. over the weekend with none other than the show's ...