Henrys Fork Caldera: Yellowstone's Last Caldera Eruption Completely in Idaho

Join geology professor Shawn Willsey as he takes you on a tour of the Henrys Fork Caldera, a ~20-mile wide caldera that formed 1.3 million years ago during a huge violent eruption that ejected 280 cubic miles of ash. This eruption was the second most recent of the three big Yellowstone eruptions over the last two million years.

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00:00 caldera locations
00:20 intro, within the caldera
01:55 map of Yellowstone's three recent calderas (from my book, Roadside Geology of Idaho)
04:08 generalized model of Yellowstone caldera eruptions (also from same book)
09:25 tour of Henrys Fork caldera rim
11:15 intracaldera basalt flow
13:41 Mesa Falls Tuff along caldera flank (just outside caldera)

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