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Supervolcanoes

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Inconvenience of Mass Extinction Events

Mass extinction events aren't actually what we call so much super volcanoes, but these large igneous provinces. This is a form of volcanism that lasts about a million years and puts about a million cubic kilometres of bag more onto the surface of the planet. So those are the sorts of events that can potentially lead to mass extinction events rather than the super volcanoes which at least short lived explosive events. And we might expect one of those as well as some... That's at some point, yeah.

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