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What is the supervolcano in Yellowstone?
The Yellowstone Caldera is the volcanic caldera in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The caldera is located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, in which the vast majority of the park is contained. The major features of the caldera measure about 55 kilometers (34 mi) by 72 kilometers (45 mi) as determined by geological field work conducted by Bob Christiansen of the United States Geological Survey in the 1960s and 1970s. After a BBC television science program (Horizon) coined the term supervolcano in 2000, it has often been referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano.
What are the summers in Yellowstone Park often like?
It depends on the day, weather,and month. it sometimes snows in the summer at Yellowstone national park.
Why is rhyolite found in Yellowstone National Park?
Yellowstone is the site of a very large volcano that is often referred to as a supervolcano. Much of what it erupts is rhyolite.
Which active volcano is in the middle of a continent?
Mount Nyamuragira is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated about 25 km north of Lake Kivu. It has been described as Africa's most active volcano and has erupted over 30 times since 1880. As well as eruptions from the summit, there have been numerous eruptions from the flanks of the volcano, creating new smaller volcanoes that have lasted only for a short time
What Yellowstone national park is located in California?
Yosemite National Park is in California. Yellowstone National Park is in Wyoming. People often get the names confused.
Why are wolves such a controversy in Yellowstone Park?
Because the wolves where actually imported, and people living near Yellowstone often claim the wolves are pestering lifestock, pets, and kids.
How are satellite images used to predict volcanic eruption?
Satellites are used to monitor the changes in the shape of the mountains. Specifically this is done rather often on the big island of Hawaii to make sure that none of the two dormant volcanoes (Mauna Loa and Hualalai) are changing shape which would indicate magma movement into the upper Plumbing of the volcanoes. Often times the same type of radar imagery is used to reconstruct the changes throughout a volcanic eruption, this radar imagery service is also used on the Yellowstone Super Caldera. Examples of how this has been used can be seen on both the Hawaii Volcanoes Observatory website and Yellowstone Volcano Observatory website. (See related links).
How is a cladera formed?
A Caldera is the space left behind after a volcanic eruption, when the magma pool cools and retreats into the earth, leaving a cavity. These often fill with sediment, or a lake.
The collapse of a volcanos magma chamber may produce a?
caldera
What is a somma volcano?
A Volcano that spawns a new cone, partially filling its caldera, is called, a somma volcano. When the new cone outgrows the original caldera, it is given a name of its own. It is the original volcano, the underlying structure, that is known as the somma volcano. These can be, and often are, stratovolcanoes themselves.
Yellowstone national park largest body of water?
The Yellowstone lake.One of the world's largest alpine lakes, encompassing 132 square mi, Yellowstone Lake was formed when glaciers that once covered the region melted into a caldera-a crater formed by a volcano. The lake has 141 mi of shoreline, less than one-third of it followed by the East Entrance Road and Grand Loop Road, along which you will often see moose, elk, waterfowl, and other wildlife. In winter you can sometimes see otters and coyotes stepping gingerly on the ice at the lake's edge. Many visitors head here for the excellent fishing-streams flowing into the lake give it an abundant supply of trout.Go also here:http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/wyoming/yellowstone-national-park/sights-nam_class:31007.html
What does nebula create?
Nebulas often create stars.
