Postglacial Inflation-Deflation Cycles, Tilting, and Faulting in the Yellowstone Caldera Based on Yellowstone Lake Shorelines

• Main Authors: Pierce, Kenneth L., Cannon, Kenneth P., Meyer, Grant A., Trebesch, Matthew J., Watts, Raymond D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2007
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Locke; Storm Point; Tilting; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgspubs/78; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=usgspubs

The Yellowstone caldera, like many other late Quaternary calderas of the world, exhibits dramatic unrest. Between 1923 and 1985, the center of the Yellowstone caldera rose nearly 1 m along an axis between its two resurgent domes (Pelton and Smith, 1979; Dzurisin and Yamashita, 1987). From 1985 until...