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Yellowstone Lake: Where Fire Meets Ice Compared to Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake seems fairly dull, but appearances can be deceiving. The bottom of Yellowstone Lake is hydrothermally active, and scientists are studying hydrothermal vents, spires, craters, domes, rhyolitic lava flows and other evidence of glacial, tectonic and sedimentation processes that created the Yellowstone Lake of today. > read more

Did you know Yellowstone has 3 Enormous Calderas? At least 1,299 episodes of unrest have occurred at 138 calderas greater than 5 km in diameter during historical time. > read more

Yellowstone Lake by the numbers Streams that flow into Yellowstone Lake. The Yellowstone River is the largest inflow and only outflow to the lake > read more

The Yellowstone Caldera Rises, Falls and Rises Again Deep beneath Yellowstone, titanic forces power some 10,000 geothermal features. Those forces of heat and pressure have caused the Earth's surface to rise and fall - much like the not-so-rhythmic breathing of a gigantic, slumbering beast. > read more

Three Yellowstone calderas The Yellowstone region has produced three exceedingly large volcanic eruptions in the past 2.1 million years > read more

Researchers take calculated risks around hazards National Park Service reports confirm that unwary summertime tourists are most likely to get burned in Yellowstone National Park's thermal areas when they stray off marked trails and boardwalks. > read more

Streamside in Yellowstone Mid-summer is the best time to sit alongside a river and listen to it talk to you. Peace and solitude like that are hard to find in crowded suburbia, but up here in Yellowstone, one can find both alongside any number of great trout fishing waters, entering from any of the Park's four entrances > read more

Geyser gazers perform vital service for science There is no cure, but treatment can consist of regular visits to geysers, or becoming a member of the Geyser Observation and Study Association (GOSA), a citizen-science group of 300 members. > read more

Yellowstone Seismic and GPS Monitoring On the Internet Seismic and GPS Monitoring Realtime earthquake information from the Yellowstone Seismic Network > read more

Yellowstone Trivia Steamboat Geyser in Norris Geyser Basin. No one can predict when it's going to erupt, as it works on an odd schdeule, ranging from four days to fifty years. > read more