Earth’s Greatest Volcanic Mystery Solved: Scientists Trace Monster Eruption to Hidden Hotspot

Earth’s Greatest Volcanic Mystery Solved: Scientists Trace Monster Eruption to Hidden Hotspot

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Earth’s Greatest Volcanic Mystery Solved: Scientists Trace Monster Eruption to Hidden HotspotA recent study has pinpointed the origin of a 120-million-year-old ‘super-eruption,’ shedding new light on Earth’s intricate geological past. A team of geologists from the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi has definitively traced one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history to its deep-sea origins beneath the Pacific Ocean. In a […]

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