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Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

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Despite growing evidence of geothermic activity under The usa’s first and foremost national park, it took geologists a very long time to realize that there used to be in reality a volcano beneath Yellowstone. And then, why couldn’t they find the caldera or crater? Because, as an aerial photograph after all revealed, the caldera is 45 miles wide, encompassing all of Yellowstone. What’s going to happen, in human terms, when it erupts?

Greg Breining explores the shocking answer to this question and others in a scientific yet accessible look at the enormous natural disaster brewing beneath the surface of america. Yellowstone is likely one of the world’s five “super volcanoes.” When it erupts, much of the nation will be hit hard.

Though historically Yellowstone has erupted about each 600,000 years, it has not done so for 630,000, meaning it is 30,000 years overdue. Starting with a scenario of What’s going to happen when Yellowstone blows, this fascinating study describes how volcanoes function and includes a timeline of famous volcanic eruptions during history.


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