American scientists came to the conclusion that the Yellowstone volcano can move. Researchers at Yellowstone discovered new properties of the super volcano, fixing a gradual change in its location.
According to volcanologists, under the soil of the state of Idaho there is a trail of very hot magma, rapidly melting during the ascent. As a result, magma chambers are formed.
It is reported that once every 800,000 years through the vent of the volcano all magma deposits are thrown out, which are hot to such an extent that they melt the Pacific plate and thereby set it in motion.
Thus, it moves toward the Pacific Ocean, passing through 2.5 centimeters per year. Yellowstone super volcano provoked two sharp cooling on the planet, which lasted about 80 years.
To this opinion came the scientists from California, having analyzed the deposits of volcanic ash and compared them with paleoclimatic data.
During the research, the scientists compared the data and found out that due to the Yellowstone eruption, the average annual sea surface temperature decreased by about 3 degrees at one time.
Yellowstone caldera, located in the north-west of the United States, is one of the largest volcanoes in the world.
The source of power of such volcanoes is in the mantle of the planet. From time to time they burn the earth’s crust because of which thousands of cubic kilometers of volcanic ash are emitted into the atmosphere.