Remember Bowie’s ‘Five Years’? Try one year with a super-volcano
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 18:11
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Super-eruptions – volcanic events large enough to devastate the entire planet – give only about a year’s warning before they blow. That is the conclusion of a new microscopic analysis of quartz crystals in pumice taken from the Bishop Tuff in eastern California, which is the site of the super-eruption that formed the Long Valley […]