We don't, as humans, remember that kind of time frame. So people live close to volcanoes for many different reasons. The land around volcanoes is often fertiles. And small scatterings of ash quite often are really great for soil. It has this great ability that it can absorb water into the soil and acts as a fertilizer on the soil. Also helps to cry satilized and irritated back and be some more.
What’s a supervolcano? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen discover all types of volcanoes in the solar system with cosmochemist and author of Fire and Ice, Natalie Starkey. Is there such a thing as an ice volcano?
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