In the heart of Oregon’s high desert, just south of Bend, lies a vast volcanic landscape that whispers tales of fire and ...

Whereas basalt magma is more liquid, rhyolite is more viscous. It doesn’t flow readily, and when it erupts, it can cause explosive eruptions. This is the type of magma that’s troubling ...

However, the team do not consider an eruption to be imminent ... the team determined that a type of igneous rock called rhyolite makes up Yellowstone’s magma chamber. The chamber spans ...

Despite the catastrophic potential, the likelihood of a Yellowstone supereruption remains very low. The United States ...

Back in 2003, a similar vent was spotted just on the other side of the same rhyolite lava flow ... an average of about 725,000 years between eruptions. 'That being the case, there is still ...

The Yellowstone Caldera is often referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano due to its colossal size; it's one of the ...

Lava domes are rounded, steep-sided mounds built by magma that is highly resistant to flow, usually either dacite or rhyolite ... seen between the May and July eruptions in 1980.

Figure 3: Eruption record between two caldera-forming eruptions in the Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field. Uncertainties plotted are 2σ. Red= fayalite-bearing rhyolite, blue= biotite-bearing rhyolite, ...

Finally, micro-scale interactions between these phases regulate an ascending magma's capability to outgas, determining the eruption's explosivity. The sample in this article presents a basalt-rhyolite ...

ESMERALDA COUNTY — Navigating the winding dirt path that may soon be paved for autonomous cars at Rhyolite Ridge is an easy feat for Bernard Rowe. He knows the prehistoric landscape well — and ...

An eruption lasts 1 1/2 to 5 minutes ... The lobby of the hotel features a 65-foot ceiling, a massive rhyolite fireplace, and railings made of contorted lodgepole pine. Wings were added to ...