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Geologically speaking, things are always changing at Yellowstone—especially in the hydrothermal areas. It’s simply the nature of the complex...

To time how fast a sprinter runs, you just need a stopwatch. To time how fast magma moves, you need to know a little bit about chemistry.

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National Park, is an excellent...

It was a dark and stormy night…

No, this isn’t a ghost story or horror movie – it’s a “Volcano Watch” about the eruption last fall near Nāpau Crater on...

The US hosts two of the world’s most famous volcanic systems: Yellowstone and Hawaiʻi. These systems a well known for producing large volumes of magma...

Kīlauea has been erupting episodically for the past two months in Halemaʻumaʻu, nested within the south end of Kaluapele, the summit caldera...

The Yellowstone Seismic Network is designed to record ground shaking due to earthquakes. But earthquakes aren’t the only things that rattle the ground...

Want to know the geologic history of a specific area of Yellowstone?  Then pay attention to the vegetation!

The AGU Chapman Conference on Caldera-Forming Eruptions at Basaltic Volcanoes will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists to contrast...

Yellowstone National Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why—the dynamic landscape contains a variety of...