supervolcano

Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Idaho have found a new way to estimate how fast magma is recharging beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano.

John Wolff looks at the microprobe computer screen to view an analysis of a rock sample. (Photos by Becky Phillips, WSU Today)     Nick Foit holding a garnet crystal. The geologists had warned them — but people were still caught off guard when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980. The ferocity of that explosion […]