Experts said the Yellowstone volcano is gradually changing its location. After a while, he can disappear from his present location and appear in a new territory.
Below Idaho, underground, there is a plume of extremely hot magma that melts rapidly as it rises. In this way, magma chambers are formed.
Once every 800 thousand years, the volcano throws out all the magmatic deposits. They are so hot that they melt the Pacific Plate, thereby provoking its movement. The plate begins to move, but the mantle plumes remain in place.
At the moment, the magma plume is located under the Kilauea volcano, but in 100 thousand years it should shift to the underwater volcano Lo'ihi. If the latter begins to erupt, a new island will definitely form.
Similar processes are relevant for the Yellowstone volcano. For millions of years, the North American Plate has been moving southwestward. Scientists have already discovered twelve large-scale eruptions that occurred before the explosions of the Yellowstone caldera.
the plate continues to move; in the future, the Yellowstone volcano may move a considerable distance. At the moment, the North American Plate is moving towards the Pacific Ocean, becoming closer to it by about 2.4 cm per year.