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Yellowstone’s magma reservoir comes into sharper focus

Yellowstone’s magma reservoir comes into sharper focus

A new seismic tomography model using a cutting-edge imaging approach that harnesses supercomputing provides an updated view of Yellowstone’s magma...

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The Fountain Hotel has a mystery to tell!

The Fountain Hotel has a mystery to tell!

The Fountain Hotel was a grand structure in the Lower Geyser Basin, serving hundreds of visitors at a time during an era of stagecoaches and staged...

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The Snake River Plain: A Tale of Two Basins

The Snake River Plain: A Tale of Two Basins

The Snake River Plain is a prominent river drainage that cuts a broad “smile” across southern Idaho, easily recognizable from satellite imagery. The...

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Buried calderas on the track of the Yellowstone hotspot

Buried calderas on the track of the Yellowstone hotspot

The track of the Yellowstone hotspot is defined by a series of old caldera systems that get older the farther to the southwest you get from...

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Stories in Mud: How and why lake cores are collected from Yellowstone’s small backcountry lakes

Stories in Mud: How and why lake cores are collected from Yellowstone’s small backcountry lakes

Many of Yellowstone’s lakes have been in existence for thousands of years, steadily accumulating sediments that capture different climatic periods...

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Under Pressure (and Temperature): Volcano Lessons Learned from Laboratory Experiments

Under Pressure (and Temperature): Volcano Lessons Learned from Laboratory Experiments

When you envision scientists working in a laboratory, you might not think of geologists.  But there is an important field of geology called...

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The leading edge of the Snake River Plain–Yellowstone volcanic province: less than 5 million-year-old volcanism around Dubois, Wyoming

The leading edge of the Snake River Plain–Yellowstone volcanic province: less than 5 million-year-old volcanism around Dubois, Wyoming

Young volcanic rocks in Wyoming are not limited to the area in and immediately surrounding Yellowstone Caldera. Eruptions have also occurred in the...

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Yellowstone’s magmatic system over the past 631,000 years

Yellowstone’s magmatic system over the past 631,000 years

Magma reservoirs beneath large volcanic systems like Yellowstone are not simply large tanks of molten rock, but rather are dynamic mixes of melt and...

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Active, dormant, and extinct: Clarifying confusing classifications

Active, dormant, and extinct: Clarifying confusing classifications

What is the difference between an active volcano, a dormant volcano, and an extinct volcano?  It can be a confusing way to describe volcanic activity...

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How can a ground motion sensor improve a weather forecast?

How can a ground motion sensor improve a weather forecast?

Continuous GPS stations in Yellowstone National Park measure minute ground movements, aiding in monitoring the volcanic system. But by analyzing the...

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Volcanism in Yellowstone: The outstanding legacy of Bob Christiansen

Volcanism in Yellowstone: The outstanding legacy of Bob Christiansen

Today we celebrate the life and career of Robert Christiansen (1935-2022), the first Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, a...

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Let’s Go on a Volcano Safari!

Let’s Go on a Volcano Safari!

Did you know that Africa is home to more than 100 active volcanoes, including one with a lava lake that produces some of the most fluid lava flows on...

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