![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920100048im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Yellowstone Rising
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November 8, 2007
![earth and environment graphic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920100048im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/1earth_enviro_l.gif) | The Yellowstone 'supervolcano' rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, University of Utah scientists report in the journal Science. Full story |
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