Yellowstone supervolcano warning as researchers found giant magma chamber beneath surface YELLOWSTONE is sitting atop a giant magma chamber being fed by a volcanic plume hundreds of miles deep.

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long known about the chamber's existence, but have yet to precisely locate ...

Yellowstone’s magma chamber is mostly made of a light-colored rock called rhyolite. It spreads out over an area roughly 55 miles long and 30 miles wide and reaches down to a depth of about 10 miles.

The magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone volcano consists of two chambers — a shallow reservoir near the surface that's around 55 miles (90 kilometers) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, and a ...

Yellowstone-style ERUPTION could be sparked by magma chamber rising to surface beneath US A HUGE magma source has found to be growing under the United States which could one day shatter the ...

Enormous Magma Chamber Discovered Deep Below Yellowstone. It’s already had three cataclysmic eruptions over the last 2 million years, covering much of North America in ash and creating the ...

The team’s analyses suggest that the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone is about 10 km below the surface and underlies an area of roughly 1,200 square kilometers.

Yellowstone National Park is sited above an underground magma chamber. /Science Photo Libra Despite the new discovery, the research does not indicate that an eruption will happen any time soon ...

WASHINGTON — Yellowstone National Park, once the site of a giant volcano, has begun swelling up, possibly because molten rock is accumulating beneath the surface, scientists report.

When standing in many places in Yellowstone National Park, the signs of a buried heat source are unmistakable, making one inclined to wonder “how far beneath my feet is there ...

A high-silica type of igneous rock called rhyolite makes up Yellowstone’s magma chamber, which spans an area 55 miles by 30 miles, dropping to a depth of 10 miles below the surface.