Yellowstone Caldera (Wyo.)
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Name (Latin)
Yellowstone Caldera (Wyo.)
See Also From tracing topical name
Calderas Wyoming
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q650836
Library of congress:
sh2018001532
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Geologic field-trip guide to the volcanic and hydrothermal landscape of the Yellowstone Plateau, 2017: b page 1 (The Yellowstone Caldera is the centerpiece of the Yellowstone Plateau)
- Dzurisin, Daniel. History of surface displacements at the Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, from leveling surveys and InSAR observations, 1923-2008, 2012:title page (Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming) page 1, etc. (Modern geodetic studies of the Yellowstone caldera, Wyoming, and its extraordinary tectonic, magmatic, and hydrothermal systems date from an initial leveling survey done throughout Yellowstone National Park in 1923 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Today the 85-by-45 km Yellowstone caldera is nearly invisible to the untrained eye; The Yellowstone caldera occupies approximately one third of the area of Yellowstone National Park)
- Encyclopedia Britannica, June 18, 2018Yellowstone Caldera (Yellowstone Caldera, enormous crater in the western-central portion of Yellowstone National Park, northwestern Wyoming, that was formed by a cataclysmic volcanic eruption some 640,000 years ago; measures approximately 30 by 45 miles (50 by 70 km))