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Because it's not officially a 'dead' volcano - it's just dormant. Additionally, the caldera covers such a vast area that, in the event of a 'super eruption', the amount of material ejected would affect the Earth for centuries to come. Possibly resulting in the extinction of all life on this planet !

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What type of volcano produced the caldera that covers most of Yellowstone Nation?

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The caldera that covers most of Yellowstone Park was produced by a supervolcano. A supervolcano is an explosive volcano capable of producing an eruption with an ejecta volume greater than 1,000 cubic kilometers. The Yellowstone Caldera is one of the largest and most active supervolcanoes in the world.


What does Yellowstone Volcano look like?

The Yellowstone volcano is actually a supervolcano, and is hidden under the rest of the park. So whenever you go and visit any part of Yellowstone, you are actually walking on top of the volcano itself.


What type of volcano is the Yellowstone volcano?

One of only a dozen "super volcanos" in the world. When super volcanos explode it changes life on earth. The last time one went off was Mt. Toba 70,000 years ago.In more technical terms, the Yellowstone volcano is a caldera. Most Caldera volcanoes start out as stratovolcanoes, but this one appears to be an exception.


Why is the volcano caldera in Yellowstone or lake toba the most powerful?

That is not true about Lake Toba. They recently discovered Lava in the Super Volcano and it is considered restless. Yellowstone could not hold a candle to what Lake Toba can do the world.


Are all the features of Yellowstone located in a caldera?

No. Most of Yellowstone lies outside of the Yellowstone Caldera, though this caldera still takes up a large portion of the park. A larger portion of the park is in the older Island Park Caldera, which partly overlaps the Yellowstone Caldera. This still takes up a minority of the park.


What type of volcano is Yellowstone volcano?

At Yellowstone, we see the caldera or what we call a supervolcano. The volcanic profile of Yellowstone in its past is one of a massive eruption that dwarfs anything we understand in current knowledge. Use the link below to the Wikipedia post on the supervolcano to learn more.


Does all of Yellowstone sit in the cladera?

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Is the Yellowstone volcano extinct?

Most scientists believe that Yellowstone is not truly active and that they would be able to detect if the Yellowstone volcano was going to erupt years before it erupted. But there is no way to no for sure if the Yellowstone caldera is truly active (building up for an eruption).