The youngest caldera is an elliptical depression, nearly 80 kilometers long and 50 kilometers wide. Most of Yellowstone National Park lies inside the caldera. The caldera is buried by several extensive rhyolite lava flows erupted between 75,000 and 150,000 years ago. |
Yellowstone Caldera is one of the largest and most active volcanoes in the world. Cataclysmic eruptions 2.0, 1.3, and 0.6 million years ago ejected huge volumes of rhyolite magma. Each eruption formed a caldera and extensive layers of thick pyroclastic-flow deposits.
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