{"id":98881153,"date":"2011-04-13T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/supervolcano-beneath-yellowstone-larger-than-previously-thought\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:53:22","slug":"supervolcano-beneath-yellowstone-larger-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/supervolcano-beneath-yellowstone-larger-than-previously-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervolcano Beneath Yellowstone Larger Than Previously Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that the plume of molten rock which lies beneath Yellowstone National Park may be larger than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scientists used a new imaging technique to measure the plume\u2019s electric conductivity and get a clearer picture of its overall size.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bigger size. We can infer there are more fluids,\u201d said the study\u2019s co-author Robert B. Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last major eruption at Yellowstone occurred some 642,000 years ago, according to scientists. The new study makes no mention of the odds of another eruption occurring any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full findings of the study will be published in the coming weeks in <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/huge-magma-chamber-spied-under-yellowstone-supervolcano-171555867.html?ref=gs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that the plume of molten rock which lies beneath Yellowstone National Park may be larger than previously thought. &nbsp; Scientists used a new imaging technique to measure the plume\u2019s electric conductivity and get a clearer picture of its overall size. &nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s a bigger size. We can infer there are more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898043,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881153\/revisions\/98898043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}