Yellowstone’s magma chamber is mostly made of a light-colored rock called rhyolite. It spreads out over an area roughly 55 miles long and 30 miles wide and reaches down to a depth of about 10 miles.

Li’s team built a model to predict how magma flow and the shape, size, and depth of the magma chamber affects its behavior. The results were then compared to data collected from Veniaminof in the ...

Mount St. Helens, one of the most studied volcanoes in the United States, is showing signs of renewed activity as its magma chamber begins recharging. This update covers the recent earthquake ...

Magma chambers are so hard to represent because they’re so complex. They can be thousands of degrees Fahrenheit and have blends of solid material and hot liquid rock.

U. researcher uses vibrations to look into Yellowstone's magma chamber By Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted - April 27, 2025 at 12:09 p.m.

Ask any geologist about the magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone, and they’ll tell you that it’s there. But where, exactly, is a lot tougher to explain. A new paper published in Nature suggests, ...

They have the potential to erupt in the future with young and fresh magma chambers. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a dormant volcano is one that is not erupting now.

“Juno’s discovery that tidal forces do not always create global magma oceans does more than prompt us to rethink what we know about Io’s interior,” said Dr. Ryan Park, who is a Juno co-investigator ...

The original plan was to drill to a depth of 4.5 km (about 2.8 miles) to just above a known magma chamber. However, as you might imagine when it comes to messing with magma, things didn't go ...

Known as the GV60 Magma and G80 Magma, these concepts simply ride on their original platforms. Without many mechanical details from Genesis, it's hard to say how spirited these will truly be.