- Yellowstone Plateau
The Yellowstone Plateau
volcanic field is ageological feature found inWyoming .The plateau developed through three
volcanic cycles spanning two million years that included some of the world's largest known eruptions. Eruption of the >2,500 km³Huckleberry Ridge Tuff about 2 million years ago created the more than 75-km-longIsland Park Caldera . The second cycle concluded with the eruption of theMesa Falls Tuff around 1.3 million years ago, forming the 25-km-wideHenrys Fork caldera at the western end of the first caldera. Activity subsequently shifted to the present Yellowstone Plateau and culminated 630,000 years ago with the eruption of the 1,000 km³Lava Creek Tuff and the formation of the present 45 x 75 km caldera. Resurgent doming then occurred at both the NE and SW sides of the caldera and voluminous (1,000 km³) intracalderarhyolitic lava flows were erupted between 150,000 and 70,000 years ago.Phreatic eruptions produced local tephras during the earlyHolocene . The caldera presently contains one of the world's largest hydrothermal systems including the world's largest concentration ofgeysers . [cite web | url = http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/history.html | title = Volcanic History of the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field| format = | work = | publisher = U.S. Geological Survey | accessdate = 2007-02-18]Cited references
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