McGuire of University College London, “you be able to get ers of it” ing. t followed would be even worse.

    Superplumes of type on s are ratini glasses—t spreading out as to create vast boable magma.

    Some of to 1,200 miles across. According to tal explosively but sometimes burst fort, continuous outpouring—aflood—of molten rock, sucraps in India sixty-five million years ago.

    (trap in text comes from a Sributed to tainly didn’t gassings. Superplumesmay also be responsible for ts t cause continents to break up.

    Suc all t rare. t ty active ones on t t, and t-knole Pitcairn int apart from Yelloone test idea one’s ended up beneatinental plate. Only tain: t t at Yelloone is t t is . But  spot or  is t is tter of ed (as it e. tinentalnature of t makes a o its eruptions. end to bubble aeadily and in a comparatively benign fasone blo doesn’t en, but  to stand well back.

    Since its first knoion 16.5 million years ago, it  a imes, but t recent tions are t get ten about. t eruptionimes greater t of Mount St.  imesbigger, and t nobody knoly   least ty-five imes greater t.  per timesmore monstrous.

    e ely noto compare it to. t blast in recent times  ofKrakatau in Indonesia in August 1883, ed around ter slos if you imagineted material from Krakatau as being about t of tone blasts  about  St. han a pea.

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