Electric Yellowstone

Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 22:30 in Earth & Climate

University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the plume of partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image suggests the plume is bigger than it appears in earlier images made with earthquake waves.

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