Sentences with phrase «supervolcano beneath»
The supervolcano beneath Yellowstone has rhyolitic magma, which tends to erupt catastrophically.
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A cross section of the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone illustrates the previously known magma chamber and the deeper, much larger magma reservoir discovered through new imaging techniques.
Visually stunning and very steamy, Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring is one of many hydrothermal features the park owes to the massive supervolcano beneath it.
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University of Utah seismologists discovered and made images of a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock 12 to 28 miles beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano, and it is 4.4 times larger than the shallower, long - known magma chamber.