Lava Creek Tuff eruption

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The Lava Creek Tuff eruption was a massive supereruption at Yellowstone about 640,000 years ago that created the current Yellowstone Caldera and deposited extensive volcanic ash across much of North America.

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instanceOf supereruption
ashDistribution much of North America
associatedWith Lava Creek Tuff member of Yellowstone Group
calderaDiameter approximately 45 by 75 kilometers
cause Yellowstone mantle plume activity
created current Yellowstone Caldera outline
depositType ignimbrite
welded tuff
erupted Lava Creek Tuff
eruptionSequence third major caldera-forming eruption of Yellowstone hotspot in last 2.1 million years
eruptionStyle ignimbrite-forming pyroclastic flows
plinian
eruptionType caldera-forming eruption
formed Yellowstone Caldera
geologicAge Late Pleistocene
hazardType ash fall
caldera collapse
pyroclastic flows
impact major reshaping of Yellowstone Plateau topography
widespread tephra layer in continental sedimentary records
location United States
Wyoming
Yellowstone National Park
magnitude supervolcanic
partOf Yellowstone volcanic system
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera
precededBy Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption
Mesa Falls Tuff eruption
produced extensive volcanic ash fall deposits
relatedProcess crustal magma chamber evacuation
resultedIn long-lived hydrothermal system at Yellowstone
post-caldera rhyolitic lava flows within Yellowstone Caldera
significance one of the largest Quaternary eruptions in North America
studiedBy United States Geological Survey
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
tephraCorrelation marker bed in Pleistocene stratigraphy of North America
time about 640,000 years ago
VEI 8
volcanicField Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field
linked to: Yellowstone Plateau
volcanicProvince Yellowstone hotspot

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Yellowstone Caldera previousCalderaFormingEruption Lava Creek Tuff eruption
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption followedBy Lava Creek Tuff eruption
Mesa Falls Tuff eruption olderThan Lava Creek Tuff eruption
Lava Creek Tuff eruption erupted Lava Creek Tuff
linked to: Lava Creek Tuff eruption
Lava Creek Tuff eruption associatedWith Lava Creek Tuff member of Yellowstone Group
linked to: Lava Creek Tuff eruption