Vic Camp News Today

LINCOLNTON – What a great year it’s been. To go back through the 2022 editions published by Lincoln Times-News is like taking a walk back in time – yet it’s

Just how long has the Yellowstone Hotspot been around? Release Date: February 1, 2021 The Yellowstone hotspot—the source of heat that powers Yellowstone’s vast volcanic system—has long been thought to have initiated about 17 million years ago.  A growing volume of evidence, however, suggests that it has been around much longer. Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This weeks contribution...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The break in slope is coincident with a discontinuity representing a regional three- to five-million-year hiatus separating two distinct styles of volcanic activity in the Cascadia backarc region. The lower... view more  Credit: Victor Camp and Ray Wells Boulder, Colo., USA: The Yellowstone hotspot is well known for generating supereruptions in the geologic past that are far more explosive than historic examples. The origin and sustained longevity of the hotspot is less...