THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO: THE THREAT UNDERNEATH AMERICA
Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Natural Threats
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Yellowstone Supervolcano — a magma chamber 90 kilometers long under Yellowstone National Park that has produced three supereruptions in the past two million years, is continuously monitored, and will erupt again on a geological timescale that could be tomorrow or could be a hundred thousand years from now.
This episode covers what the three previous supereruptions actually produced, what a modern Yellowstone supereruption would look like from the pyroclastic destruction through the volcanic winter, the…
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