Tracking Movements in Yellowstone (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Tracking Movements in Yellowstone

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Sitting on a tripod, a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna, powered by portable solar-energy panels, measures gradual movements of Earth's crust in Hot Springs Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. University of Utah researchers have published 17 years worth of GPS data showing how a giant plume of hot and molten rock beneath Yellowstone shapes the landscape of the park and a wide area around it.

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Jamie Farrell, University of Utah.

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