Is The Earth Cooking Up A Super Volcano?
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Plosky Tolbachnik volcano erupts in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Jan. 6, 2013. It's not a so-called "super volcano," but every million years or so scientists say the Earth burps up volcanoes that can erupt for thousands of years. Plosky Tolbachnik volcano erupts in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Jan. 6, 2013. It's not a so-called "super volcano," but every million years or so scientists say the Earth burps up volcanoes that can erupt for thousands of years. Alexander Petrov/AP Every few million years or so, the Earth burps up a gargantuan volcano. These aren't like volcanoes in our lifetimes; these "super volcanoes" can erupt continuously for thousands of years. While they might be rare, when one does hit you'd best look out. The ash and volcanic gases from these volcanoes can wipe out most living things over large parts of the planet.
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Michael Thorne
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| 0 | "I think this is the first study that might point to evidence that these piles are moving around," Thorne says. ... |
| -0.0568099 | "We call it a blob of partially molten material," he says. ... |
| -0.0378921 | "We call it a blob of partially molten material," he says. "I mean it's big ... this one that we found is an order of magnitude, maybe ten times larger, than any of the ones we've observed before." |
| 0.0312128 | "A possibility is that these blobs might represent sort of a deep-seated root, to where plumes arise all the way to the surface, giving rise to hotspot volcanism," Thorne says. ... |
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Is The Earth Cooking Up A Super Volcano?
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A seismologist who studies the Earth's core says two continent-sized piles of rock are merging and creating enormous blobs of molten material. These could be the source of the super volcanoes that occasionally rock the planet and create mass extinctions.
