Mesa Falls Tuff eruption

E708322

The Mesa Falls Tuff eruption was a major explosive volcanic event in the Yellowstone region that produced extensive ash-flow deposits and helped shape an earlier phase of the Yellowstone volcanic system.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mesa Falls Tuff eruption canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf volcanic eruption
age Pleistocene
approximateAgeInMillionsOfYears 1.3
associatedWith Island Park Caldera
Yellowstone hotspot
cause Yellowstone mantle plume
chronologicalPhaseOf Yellowstone volcanic system
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera
country United States
depositName Mesa Falls Tuff
depositType ash-flow tuff
welded tuff
eruptionStyle Plinian
caldera-forming
eruptionType ash-flow eruption
eruptiveCenter Island Park Caldera area
linked to: Island Park Caldera
formsPartOf Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field eruptive history
hasConsequence landscape modification in Yellowstone region
widespread tephra dispersal in western North America
hasProduct Mesa Falls Tuff
helpedShape earlier phase of the Yellowstone volcanic system
location Island Park area
Yellowstone region
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera
magnitude large
namedAfter Mesa Falls
olderThan Lava Creek Tuff eruption
partOf Yellowstone volcanic system
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera
produced extensive ash-flow deposits
ignimbrite
region eastern Idaho
northwestern Wyoming
relatedHazard ash fall
pyroclastic flows
relatedProcess caldera collapse
stratigraphicUnit Mesa Falls Tuff
studyDiscipline igneous petrology
volcanology
tectonicSetting intraplate hotspot
VEI 7
volcanicField Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field
linked to: Yellowstone Plateau
youngerThan Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yellowstone Caldera previousCalderaFormingEruption Mesa Falls Tuff eruption
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption followedBy Mesa Falls Tuff eruption
Lava Creek Tuff eruption precededBy Mesa Falls Tuff eruption