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Yellowstone’s last supereruption was messier than geologists thought

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — For more than 50 years, geologists have categorized the rock left behind in Yellowstone National Park’s (YNP) last super eruption 631,000 years ago into two geologic layers. One Caldera Chronicles suggests that line might never have existed. The new study focuses on Lava Creek Tuff is the deposit left behind from […]

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