Aug 24, 8:18 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Science By Shubham Sharma 07/26/18 AT 8:40 AM For years, the long-dormant super-volcano at Yellowstone National park has drawn at a lot of attention from geologists and scientists in different parts of the world. The volcano isn’t anywhere close to erupting but various teams have been analyzing its features to provide more insight into how formations like this evolve.One such study has now suggested we were wrong about the source of heat for this volcano. This is the location of Yellowstone’s hotspot track. The triangles indicate general locations of the Yellowstone and Snake River Plain age-progressive volcanoes with ages shown in millions of years, plotted on a topography map of the Western United States. Photo: Virginia Tech In the past, scientists believed that the Yellowstone super-volcano was powered by the magma plumes coming from the core of our planet, much like most other volcanoes in different parts of the world. The theory was widely accepted, but just recently, Ying Zhou from Virginia Tech College of Science has demonstrated that the rubbing of unusual rocks in the mantle — a theory applicable on volcanoes sitting on edges of tectonic plates — was responsible… Read full this story
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