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    Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, is a Quaternary caldera complex and volcanic plateau spanning parts of Wyoming...
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    Bruneau-Jarbidge caldera. The hotspot currently lies under the Yellowstone Caldera. The hotspot's most recent caldera-forming supereruption, known as the Lava Creek Eruption...
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    North America and covers part of the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest super volcano on the continent. The caldera is considered a dormant volcano. It has...
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    portion of a larger caldera, the Huckleberry Ridge Caldera. The third large eruption was about 0.6 Ma and created the Yellowstone Caldera. This eruption produced...
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    Park Caldera is sometimes referred to as the First Phase Yellowstone Caldera or the Huckleberry Ridge Caldera. To the southwest of the caldera lies the...
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  • silicic caldera eruptions are the only volcanic product with volumes rivaling those of flood basalts.: 77  For example, when Yellowstone Caldera last erupted...
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    The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) is a volcano observatory that primarily monitors the Yellowstone Caldera in Yellowstone National Park in the...
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    pressure and ruptures. This can occur at hotspots (for example, Yellowstone Caldera) or at subduction zones (for example, Toba). Large-volume supervolcanic...
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    geysers with hot water sits within an ancient active caldera. Many of the thermal features in Yellowstone build up sinter, geyserite, or travertine deposits...
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    large open calderas such as Yellowstone Caldera or Valles Caldera, and in turn such calderas are often referred to as "resurgent-type" calderas to distinguish...
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    Henry's Fork Caldera in eastern Idaho is a caldera located in an area known as Island Park, west of Yellowstone National Park. The caldera was formed by...
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    by subsequent lava flows (see Yellowstone Caldera). Part of this caldera is the 136 sq mi (350 km2) basin of Yellowstone Lake. The original lake was 200 ft...
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    eruptions Wheeler Geologic Area Yellowstone Caldera Toba Supereruption Steven, Thomas A.; Lipman, Peter W. (1976). "Calderas of the San Juan Volcanic Field...
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  • Yellowstone Caldera, volcanic caldera and supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone River Yellowstone (film), a 1936 film Yellowstone (British...
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    most explosive volcanoes on Earth during the Pleistocene along with Yellowstone Caldera and Lake Toba. It is the only known supervolcano located directly...
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    to 23 Mya) are listed, especially those relating to the Yellowstone hotspot, Santorini caldera, and the Taupō Volcanic Zone. Active volcanoes such as Stromboli...
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    Mesa Falls Tuff (category Yellowstone hotspot)
    Fork Caldera that is located in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park. It is the second most recent caldera forming eruption from the Yellowstone hotspot...
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    geological mapping. Known examples include Yellowstone Caldera in Yellowstone National Park and Valles Caldera in New Mexico (both western United States);...
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    The Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile-wide (22.0 km) volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. Hot springs, streams...
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    Huckleberry Ridge Tuff (category Yellowstone hotspot)
    Huckleberry Ridge eruption that formed the Island Park Caldera that lies partially in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and stretches westward into Idaho...
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    Lava Creek Tuff (category Yellowstone Caldera)
    which led to the formation of the Yellowstone Caldera. This eruption is considered the climactic event of Yellowstone's third volcanic cycle. The Lava Creek...
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    Retrieved 9 December 2018. Topinka, Lyn (25 June 2009). "Description: Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming". USGS. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved...
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    (300 kilometres) north of San Francisco, and east as far as the Yellowstone Caldera and continental divide and contains 75 distinct ecoregions. The Cascadia...
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  • Supervolcano (film) (category Films about Yellowstone Caldera)
    the speculated and potential eruption of the volcanic Yellowstone Caldera, located in Yellowstone National Park. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting...
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    "Discovery of two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot track (USA): Is the Yellowstone hotspot waning?". Geology. 48 (9): 934–938. Bibcode:2020Geo...
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    Idaho, and is about 22 million acres (89,000 km2). Yellowstone National Park and the Yellowstone Caldera 'hotspot' are within it. The area is a flagship...
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  • 2012 (film) (category Films about Yellowstone Caldera)
    Ocean. The group flies to Yellowstone and Jackson retrieves Charlie's map of the arks' location, just as the Yellowstone Caldera begins to erupt. Charlie...
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    research. Long Valley is not above a hotspot, such as those which fuel Yellowstone Caldera or the volcanoes of Hawaii, nor is it the result of subduction such...
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    Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is the first large canyon on the Yellowstone River downstream from Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming...
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    Mountains of Nevada. McDermitt Caldera is possibly the oldest of a sequence of calderas formed by the Yellowstone hotspot. The caldera was preceded by a lava...
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