The latter are the focus of everyone's anxieties, but seismic data can't tell basaltic and rhyolitic activity apart. Should Yellowstone approach eruption, we wouldn't know whether it was on the ...

Though basaltic eruptions are more common worldwide, the Yellowstone Caldera was formed by a rhyolitic eruption that launched magma with the same consistency as asphalt into the air, as Michael ...

The third, centred on Lava Creek Tuff and dated to some 650,000 years ... basaltic magma in the lower crust are heating chambers of rhyolitic melt in the upper crust. These are now concentrating ...

According to research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, a volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park is unlikely due to the structure ... The second type, rhyolitic magma ...

The Yellowstone Caldera formed over 600,000 years ago from the Lava Creek Tuff eruption, which was measured on the Volcanic Explosivity Index as an 8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey – the ...