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Stories about: supervolcano

Study Tracks Geothermal Distribution Patterns in Yellowstone The fact that a host of companies are interested in geothermal development just outside the borders of the Yellowstone National Park is no longer a secret, but experts now need to figure out how to do this without upsetting this unique habitat. Recently, experts created a map of its underground heat. One of the hal... 8 December 2011 03:08 GMT Supervolcanoes, Past and Future We have recently written about an event that nearly extinguished all life on Earth some 250 million years ago. It had to do with the most massive superplume ever that originated in the near-core region of the Earth and slowly reached towards the surface during millions of years, culminating with three large volcanic ... 15 December 2008 18:01 GMT