Evidence in the Cassia Hills of Idaho reveals 12 catastrophic eruptions
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 10:20
in Earth & Climate
Ancient super-eruptions west of Yellowstone, USA, were investigated by an international initiative to examine the frequency of massive volcanic events. Yellowstone famously erupted cataclysmically in recent times, but these were just the latest of a longer succession of huge explosive eruptions that burned a track from Oregon eastward toward Yellowstone during the past 16 million years.