The Yellowstone hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the United States responsible for large scale volcanism in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming, formed as the North American …

The Yellowstone hotspot—the source of heat that powers Yellowstone’s vast volcanic system—has long been thought to have initiated about 17 million years ago. A growing volume …

2023年11月7日 · Hot spot volcanism is responsible for Yellowstone eruptions. Yellowstone's volcanism is the most recent in a 17 million-year history of volcanic activity that progressed …

2022年11月14日 · 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 Yellowstone. Because they …

2022年12月5日 · The Yellowstone Hotspot surfaced 17 million years ago as massive outpourings of basalt lava in the Columbia Plateau–Steens Basalt region. Since then the North American …

The Yellowstone hotspot is recognized as a whole-mantle plume with a history that extends to at least 56 Ma, as recorded by offshore volcanism on the Siletzia oceanic plateau. Siletzia …

Yellowstone sits above a melting anomaly within the Earth, called a “hotspot.” This hotspot is powered by a plume of hot (but not molten) material that may extend as deep as the boundary …

The Yellowstone Plateau was built by hotspot volcanism of rhyolitic lavas and caldera-forming rhyolite tuffs (ignimbrites). Streams eroding back into the edges of this plateau have created …

2021年1月7日 · Insights into the Yellowstone Hotspot. Boulder, Colo., USA: The Yellowstone hotspot is well known for generating supereruptions in the geologic past that are far more …

2020年6月6日 · The gargantuan Yellowstone hotspot (also known as the Yellowstone supervolcano) has erupted at least 10 times over the past 16 million years, permanently …