Tucked deep inside theMcDermitt Caldera on the Nevada-Oregon border, the deposit is worth a staggering $1.5 trillion, ...
Ever been mesmerized by the swirling colors of Grand Prismatic Spring and wondered what fuels that otherworldly boil? It turns out that beneath the wild expanse of Yellowstone National Park lies one ...
Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the ...
Imagine living through one of the most massive volcanic eruptions in history—Toba’s supereruption, about 74,000 years ago, ...
Midway Geyser Basin at Sunset, Yellowstone National Park. (Neal Herbert/National Park Service) The northwest corner of Wyoming is boiling. There, 10,000 hydrothermal features transform Yellowstone ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the world's largest supervolcanoes erupted 2.1 million years ago in Yellowstone, and then twice more there at intervals of roughly 660,000 ...