Talk:Yellowstone Caldera

Inconsistency in the age given for the Lava Creek eruption

The article gives two different ages for the Lava Creek eruption that formed the Yellowstone Caldera. The introduction states it occurred "about 630,000 years ago," but the "Geological history" section states it "occurred 640,000 years ago," and a later paragraph repeats "approximately 640,000 years ago." The 10,000-year difference (~1.6%) is not attributed to different dating methods or scholarly disagreement anywhere in the article — both are presented as plain statements of the same event's age. Could an editor reconcile the two figures and cite the most current radiometric dating?

Rome (talk) 04:44, 8 May 2026 (UTC)