The magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone volcano consists of two chambers — a shallow reservoir near the surface that's around 55 miles (90 kilometers) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, and a ...

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies something extraordinary—a giant underground chamber filled with molten rock, trapped gases, and intense heat. For years, scientists have known about this ...

Although the USGS identified pockets of melted rhyolite rock under all of Yellowstone, channels of magma connect the northeast rhyolite melt pockets to deeper reservoirs of molten basalt. Magma ...

They found that magma was moving in the cracks created by the fault system 6 to 9 miles beneath the surface. Because the ...

If the ice sheet melts sufficiently, the changes in stress and pressure on Earth's crust, and the magma chambers therein, could generate a feedback loop of volcanism that accelerates the ice melt ...

Messing with our planet’s “magma plumbing system” is a really bad idea. By Darren Orf Published: Jan 16, 2025 8:30 AM EST Abstract Aerial Art // Getty Images ...

Once magma chambers become unstable, they could continue erupting periodically for thousands of years, continually melting ice. Moreover, rising carbon dioxide levels intensify this feedback loop.

Data from previous missions had made planetary scientists wonder whether, rather than just pockets of melt, Io contained a 31-mile (50-kilometer) deep layer of magma: a moon-wide ocean of molten rock.

Geoscientists discovered a magma cap acting as a "lid" 2.4 miles beneath Yellowstone. This magma cap traps heat and pressure, but also allows gas to vent, reducing eruption risk.

Enhanced spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge due to ice melting from Greenland may have contributed to that fiery past—allowing more magma to rise to the surface, fueling the eruption of ...