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Uplift, thermal unrest and magma intrusion at Yellowstone caldera

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, March 2006
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Title
Uplift, thermal unrest and magma intrusion at Yellowstone caldera
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Nature, March 2006
DOI 10.1038/nature04507
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Authors

Charles W. Wicks, Wayne Thatcher, Daniel Dzurisin, Jerry Svarc

Abstract

The Yellowstone caldera, in the western United States, formed approximately 640,000 years ago when an explosive eruption ejected approximately 1,000 km3 of material. It is the youngest of a series of large calderas that formed during sequential cataclysmic eruptions that began approximately 16 million years ago in eastern Oregon and northern Nevada. The Yellowstone caldera was largely buried by rhyolite lava flows during eruptions that occurred from approximately 150,000 to approximately 70,000 years ago. Since the last eruption, Yellowstone has remained restless, with high seismicity, continuing uplift/subsidence episodes with movements of approximately 70 cm historically to several metres since the Pleistocene epoch, and intense hydrothermal activity. Here we present observations of a new mode of surface deformation in Yellowstone, based on radar interferometry observations from the European Space Agency ERS-2 satellite. We infer that the observed pattern of uplift and subsidence results from variations in the movement of molten basalt into and out of the Yellowstone volcanic system.

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Country Count As %
Argentina 3 2%
Germany 2 1%
United States 2 1%
New Zealand 2 1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 180 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 50 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 18%
Student > Master 21 11%
Student > Bachelor 16 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 6%
Other 36 19%
Unknown 24 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 138 72%
Environmental Science 5 3%
Engineering 5 3%
Physics and Astronomy 2 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 1%
Other 8 4%
Unknown 33 17%
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