Heat from below Pacific Ocean fuels Yellowstone, study finds

ENN
Dec 19, 2017, 9:58 am47 pts
Recent stories in the national media are magnifying fears of a catastrophic eruption of the Yellowstone volcanic area, but scientists remain uncertain about the likelihood of such an event. To better understand the region’s subsurface geology, University of Illinois geologists have rewound and played back a…

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