Why Do They Call “Yellowstone Volcano”, a Super Volcano?
A super volcano has a different structure than the regular volcano we all know of. The regular volcano has an open crater where the hot rocks have an exit point as steam pressure pushes them up to the Earth’s surface in the form of hot lava or molten rocks. A super volcano, on the other hand, finds release of the heat and its steam pressure build up through outlying geysers. The molten rocks, however, stay underneath; slowly piling up through the years, until they have built up enough pressure to spew out of the blocked crater called caldera. The caldera, which appears as an indentation on the Earth’s surface, was formed by the residue of dried-up lava and magma that remained at the peak after the volcano erupted, 650,000 years ago. Its crater formed a cone which gave the volcano the appearance of a regular mountain. The possibility that this super volcano will erupt is now supported by the following indicators: • The Eastern Space Agency’s satellite images have shown that there are he
