Yellowstone diffuse degassing area (Wyoming, USA)

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Volcano: Yellowstone Plateau (see Yellowstone Plateau at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab)
Type: Soil Diffuse Emission
Description: Yellowstone supports extensive hydrothermal activity that is related to at least one large hydrothermal reservoir at depth with an estimated temperature in excess of 300°C. Land area estimates for neutral-chloride, travertine-precipitating, and acid-sulfate areas were obtained from a digital database of the 1996 Yellowstone Soil Survey at the Spatial Analysis Center, Yellowstone National Park.


Point of contact for this site:
Cynthia Werner, cwerner@usgs.gov (U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Volcano Observatory)

Number of measurements: 1
Measurement date (d/m/y) Added by Added on
Yellowstone_010119981/1/1998 Emanuela Bagnato Sept. 30, 2016


Bibliographic references for this site

Werner, C. , Brantley, S., 2003,CO2 emissions from the Yellowstone volcanic system, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystem, vol.4(7), pp. 1-27, DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000473


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