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| Author: | NewsPoster [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | One of planet's largest volcanic eruptions |
Science Daily Geology Researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of the Earth's largest known volcanic eruptions, a millennia-long spewing of sulfuric gas that blocked out the sun and cooled the planet. Only two other eruptions -- the basalt floods of the Siberian Traps and the Deccan Traps -- were larger, and they led to two of the Earth's great extinctions. Read more |
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