Somehow the plate is moving across a mantle hot spot.
Later/more recent activity:
There has been no shortage of eruptions:
Somehow the plate is moving across a mantle hot spot.
Later/more recent activity:
There has been no shortage of eruptions:
Oh, good maps, thanks.
News loves to tSlk about the 3 big Yellowstone eruptions, but seldom mention and detail that it has had lots of smaller ones, many since last big one 630k years ago. If we see an eruption there odds are it would be another smaller one. Media hasn’t told us what to expect from such and how to know it’s not a big one. Excessive panic is likely. In a really big one panic won’t matter... long.
The Mt St. Helen’s volcano was “only” 1 cubic mile compared to the 67, 240, 600 cubic miles of those big 3....!