It’s alive! Yellowstone’s geology, that is. A new geyser may be forming in Wyoming’s crown jewel national park. Over the last two weeks, park staff have observed signs of fresh seismic and hydrothermal activity near Black Diamond Pool, the site of a dramatic 2024 explosion that prompted rangers to close Biscuit Basin to tourists. Although far smaller than the eruption two years ago, the activity has created a new boiling pool in Biscuit Basin.
View this post on InstagramBetween June 14 and 16, the pool likely formed when the ground collapsed and filled with boiling water around one of these new vents just north of Black Diamond. The pool is currently about 350 feet in diameter, or roughly the same square footage as a two-car garage. Two days after it formed, a 20-to 30-foot geyser spouted from the pool, which scientists captured on camera.
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Before Yellowstone began to boil, the geological hotspot that fuels the park’s famous geysers and thermal features sat under what is now southeastern Idaho, where you can still see volcanic calderas and ancient lava flows in Craters of the Moon National Monument. Over the millennia, North America’s crust drifted over that hotspot to the southwest, leaving a string of lava flows and calderas that were later shaped by the Snake River into the region’s iconic canyons and river plains.
Around 2 million years ago, that volcanic activity became centered beneath what we know as Yellowstone, with a series of cataclysmic eruptions that covered most of the Southwest and western plains in volcanic ash, reaching as far east as the Mississippi and as far south as Houston, Texas, and Louisiana. That activity continued every few hundred thousand years, blowing apart ridges and mesas and collapsing them into the 1,500 square mile Yellowstone Caldera.
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Can You Visit the New Pool in Yellowstone?
Due to recent volatility, Biscuit Basin has been closed to visitors for the last two years, including the Black Oopal Pool, Black Diamond Pool, Sapphire Pool, and Jewel Geyser features. For anyone whose curiosity has been piqued by this latest explosion, however, there are hundreds more geysers, mudpots, fumaroles, and hot springs to observe in Yellowstone – not to mention the Biscuit Basin webcam that captured the formation of this new pool, and whatever might happen there next.
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