Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...

Though the volcano lives quietly under the surface of the National Park, its geothermal activity results in numerous hot ...

Using magnetotelluric data collected across Yellowstone caldera in the summers of 2017 and 2021, geophysicists modeled where magma is stored beneath the region to as deep as 47 kilometers (30 miles) ...

A number of studies have given us fascinating images showing Yellowstone’s magma reservoirs. But how are those images created ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that ...

A detailed look at Yellowstone's magma ... and one 640,000 years ago). This magma rests as deep as about 6 or 7 miles (9.6 to 11.2 kilometers) below the surface, Bennington told Live Science.

Instead, a large magma pool sits right below a shallow surface rock layer. That's what lurks beneath the surface at Yellowstone National Park. But unlike Mount Saint Helens, the Yellowstone ...

For decades, researchers in and around Yellowstone National Park have used seismic waves — imagine giving the region an MRI — to map the hot mush below ... magma sends back to the Earth’s ...

It is therefore possible that this region will be the locus of future rhyolitic eruptions in the Yellowstone region. Not anytime soon, though. The magma stored beneath the surface of Yellowstone ...

caldera-forming eruptions at Yellowstone in the past (one 2.8 million years ago, one 1.3 million years ago and one 640,000 years ago). This magma rests as deep as about 6 or 7 miles (9.6 to 11.2 ...