Yellowstone supervolcano magma chamber has far more melted rock than thought
News By Sascha, PareiveScience, June29, 2023
[www.livescience.com]

This is still good news as the proportion of magma melt is still well below the threshold
that has been estimated to be needed for a catastrophic eruption.

The open access paper is:

Wu, S.M., Huang, H.H., Lin, F.C., Farrell, J. and Schmandt, B., 2023.
Extreme seismic anisotropy indicates shallow accumulation of
magmatic sills beneath Yellowstone caldera. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 616, p.118244.
[www.sciencedirect.com]

An older paywalled paper is:

Maguire, R., Schmandt, B., Li, J., Jiang, C., Li, G., Wilgus, J. and Chen,
M., 2022. Magma accumulation at depths of prior rhyolite storage beneath
Yellowstone Caldera. Science, 378(6623), pp.1001-1004.
[www.science.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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