Yellowstone's magma plumbing mainly shaped by tectonic forces—not deep mantle plume

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Apr 10, 2026, 1:20 pm53 ptsTrending
A lot of research goes into determining how to best predict the next eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Part of this involves pinning down how the magma migration system functions and evolves over time. The exact mechanism driving Yellowstone's volcanism and how magma travels from deep within Earth to…

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