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Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Blaine McCleskey, research chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Yellowstone Country Montana is a stunningly beautiful land where snow-frosted mountains ascend into an azure sky. The draws are year-round, but insiders will tell you that fall is the best time for travelers.

Here's a bunch of pictures from my vacation and what we all did over the last week!

Return the National Parks to the Tribes David Treuer Image above: Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake. This article was published online on April 12, 2021. I. The End Result of Dirty Business In 1851, members of a California state militia called the Mariposa Battalion became the first white men to lay eyes on Yosemite Valley. The group was largely made up of miners. They had been scouring the western slopes of the Sierra when...

Vasily Bogoyavlensky, geologist and geophysicist, said that there are many of such "black holes" in the north of Russia. Many of those craters have emerged during the past ten years. The very first crater, which was discovered in 2014, became the famous one. It was a hole about 50 meters deep and 40 meters in diameter. Geologists quickly established that the giant hole in the ground was just a hole, from which methane was bursting out. A cavity is formed in the layers of underground ice as it ...

Stretch of water between mainland russia and the crimean peninsula. its known as the kerch strait. you can see why russia would want to build a bridge there, right? not only does it give you easy access to the crimean peninsula, it also gives you huge leverage in terms of controlling everything that comes and goes into the sea of azov. by being the sole proprietor of that bridge, you become the gate agent to that entire body of water and all the ports that are inside of it. so its no wonder at a...

Time. its comically difficult. there is a tectonic plate right under the kerj straight. theres also dozens of mud volcanoes on the sea floor. while you think this screen is one way, its not. i can see you, i can read your lips saying -- whats a mud volcano? mud volcanoes are exactly what they sound like, volcanoes that spew mud. theres more. in the winter the strait is inundated with big ice flows, one giant sheet of sea ice actually took out a temporary bridge in the 1940s. mother nature has be...

Help the relief effort. but of course they need to be requested. back to you, jenna. jenna: david piper, thank you. pakistans earthquake hitting with such force the earth apparently moved to create a small island visible off the coast all of a sudden. the head of pakistans geological survey confirming the mass was created by the earthquake and scientists were trying to determine exactly how it happened. quake experts say such masses are sometimes created by a movement of gases locked in the eart...

So youre looking at this. when you look at this, it is pretty incredible. it has beach. it has rock. this literally popped up out of the ocean in an instant. now, it may look solid but apparently, this is not land that anybody would want to claim. despite that you see people walking on it. the u.s. geological survey says it will erode in a year. in this case he says seismic waves likely passed through a mud volcano so it is unstable. or maybe like hawaii, some islands created by volcanos do last...

Images of a new island. seismologists believe it is a mud volcano that is only temporary. now for a look at the national weather we turn to bill karins. >> it sounds crazy. >> ive never anything like that do you have any of that on record, just forming out of nowhere. >> its possible. wish i could have seen it. all of a sudden this island appears. >> they say its only temporary. itll go away. >> i guess its not stable enough. itll fall back into the water. pretty cool, hopefully an update and ...