{"id":1389,"date":"2015-08-03T23:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T23:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1389"},"modified":"2015-08-03T23:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T23:17:55","slug":"video-supervolcanoes","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/chapter\/video-supervolcanoes\/","title":{"raw":"Video: Supervolcanoes","rendered":"Video: Supervolcanoes"},"content":{"raw":"The largest supervolcano in North America is beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Yellowstone sits above a hotspot that has erupted catastrophically three times: 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago. Yellowstone has produced many smaller (but still enormous) eruptions more recently. Fortunately, current activity at Yellowstone is limited to the region\u2019s famous geysers.\r\n\r\nLong Valley Caldera, south of Mono Lake in California, is the second largest supervolcano in North America. Long Valley had an extremely hot and explosive rhyolite explosion about 700,000 years ago. An earthquake swarm in 1980 alerted geologists to the possibility of a future eruption, but the quakes have since calmed down.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SulM31nqaKw\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YawfoULZdbw","rendered":"<p>The largest supervolcano in North America is beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Yellowstone sits above a hotspot that has erupted catastrophically three times: 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago. Yellowstone has produced many smaller (but still enormous) eruptions more recently. Fortunately, current activity at Yellowstone is limited to the region\u2019s famous geysers.<\/p>\n<p>Long Valley Caldera, south of Mono Lake in California, is the second largest supervolcano in North America. Long Valley had an extremely hot and explosive rhyolite explosion about 700,000 years ago. An earthquake swarm in 1980 alerted geologists to the possibility of a future eruption, but the quakes have since calmed down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Yellowstone Super-Eruptions | Curiosity: Volcano Time Bomb\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SulM31nqaKw?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YawfoULZdbw<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1389\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Yellowstone Super Eruptions Curiosity. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Discovery. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Youtube. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SulM31nqaKw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SulM31nqaKw<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard Youtube License<\/li><li>Yellowstone Eruption. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: vele90. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Youtube. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YawfoULZdbw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YawfoULZdbw<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard Youtube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":1367,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Yellowstone Super Eruptions Curiosity\",\"author\":\"Discovery\",\"organization\":\"Youtube\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SulM31nqaKw\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard Youtube License\"},{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Yellowstone Eruption\",\"author\":\"vele90\",\"organization\":\"Youtube\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YawfoULZdbw\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard Youtube License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1389","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1286,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1389\/revisions\/1391"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1286"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1389\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/earthscienceck12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}