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The incident occurred at Grand Prismatic Spring near Old Faithful as tourists were enjoying a close-up view of the famous and ...
Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.
Wyoming is many things to many people, but public land is why they come and why they stay, writes guest columnist Chris Madson.
It's a trek to get to Yellowstone National Park. And even then, the adventure has only just begun. Yellowstone National Park ...
One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1925, a mountainside in the Gros Ventre Range in northwest Wyoming collapsed, unleashing ...
Research expeditions found that pockmarks in the Pacific Ocean were not created in the way they originally thought.
A 'secret lid' keeps the volcano in check at Yellowstone National Park, according to new research from Rice University. The cap allows the supervolcano to vent instead of building up pressure.
Inside Yellowstone's fiery heart: Researchers map volatile-rich cap, offering clues to future volcanic activity. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 ...
(Yellowstone is ‘where we began to negotiate a peace treaty with the wild.’) The region’s geological history reaches back at least 66 million years, when volcanism produced spectacular features.
Magnetotellurics helped researchers create a precise map of magma chambers beneath Yellowstone. Bennington et al. / Nature, 2024 Other studies have relied primarily upon seismic waves, which help ...
Scientists are tracking changes at the giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park, but they say there's no need to worry at the moment. “The western part of the Yellowstone ...
New mapping of the magma lying beneath Yellowstone National Park sheds light on where volcanic activity is shifting, and the likelihood of a full-scale eruption.