Hasn’t this been known for years?
Yes, and we had our chance with the Chinese for an even trade for our debt. :(
Yellowstone supervolcano keeps getting bigger, new U. study finds
By Amy Joi O’Donoghue
April 24th, 2015 @ 8:54am
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“For the first time, we have imaged the continuous volcanic plumbing system under Yellowstone,” said first author Hsin-Hua Huang, a postdoctoral researcher in geology and geophysics. “That includes the upper crustal magma chamber we have seen previously, plus a lower crustal magma reservoir that has never been imaged before and that connects the upper chamber to the Yellowstone hotspot plume below.”
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Farrell added that even though the large reservoir of magma has always been there, grasping the scope of its size can be a bit daunting.
“Yellowstone is a really big volcano,” he said. “Some of these things are on scales that we have not seen before.”
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