a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who pioneered research on the Yellowstone volcano in the 1960s. With the magma chamber emptied, the surface collapses. The entire domed region simply falls into ...

One chamber is about 90 kilometers (56 miles) long and 40 kilometers (25 miles) wide, and the other, deeper chamber is about ...

If Yellowstone's volcano erupted, it would be catastrophic ... would cool a ring of rock around the magma chamber. Sort of like how coolant in your car carries heat away from its engine.

Scientists will be drilling a 1.3-mile-deep borehole into an active volcano to tap into the potentially limitless energy from the magma ...

Underneath Iceland's sometimes snowy surface is a boiling cauldron of superheated magma. It's a bane to residents who are at ...

Unfortunately, my first Airborne-Laser Volcano-Lancing posts have ... water below and to the sides of the magma chamber. These fluids, which form Yellowstone’s famous heat pools and geysers ...

Although this may make it seem as though the volcano is extinct, the area is actually in a volcanic hotspot, and beneath Yellowstone is a massive magma chamber which is estimated to be 37 miles long.

Scientists can’t know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale warning signs ...

The Yellowstone Caldera ... tens of thousands of years. The supervolcano, located in Wyoming, spans about 30 miles across. Despite having a significant magma volume beneath it, its surface area ...

If Yellowstone's volcano erupted, it would be catastrophic ... would cool a ring of rock around the magma chamber. Sort of like how coolant in your car carries heat away from its engine.