People have a knack to read up on extinction events – after all not much is known about the event that killed off the dinosaurs a few million years ago. With the Yellowstone Caldera being one of the deadliest supervolcanoes in existence, we ought to be prepared. But we may be preparing for the wrong supervolcano.
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People have a knack to read up on extinction events, after all not much is known about the event that killed off the dinosaurs a few million years ago.
With the Yellowstone Caldera being one of the deadliest supervolcanoes in existence, we ought to be prepared. But we may be preparing for the wrong supervolcano.
According to Science Alert, supervolcanoes are in reality extensive fields of volcanic activity. These are formed when a volcano ejects too much magma from its center that it collapses in itself, leaving a large crater and a landscape with geysers, hydrothermal activity, and sulphuric acid.
Campi Flegrei — or burning fields, in Italian — is another one of these…
