An Electromagnetic View of How Magma is Stored beneath Yellowstone
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Yellowstone caldera is one of the largest volcanic systems in the world. Past volcanic activity at the caldera has ranged from the output of lava flows to the explosion of large volumes of ash, and the last eruption in the region—a lava flow—was over 70,000 years ago. In a recent study, USGS investigators with collaborators at Oregon State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison used