1. Yellowstone's Power Source: A 'Lost' Tectonic Plate, Not a Mantle Plume, New Study Argues
The volcanic fury of Yellowstone, capable of periodically blanketing a continent in ash, may be powered not by a deep-seated mantle plume but by the lingering ghost of a tectonic plate that vanished beneath North America millions of years ago. A new scientific paper posits that the ancient Farallon plate, a key archite...