Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part I, A Vulcanology Primer By Stephanie Osborn

Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part I, A Vulcanology Primer By Stephanie Osborn

Excerpted from Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, © 2018

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What is a supervolcano?

“The term ‘supervolcano’ implies a volcanic center that has had an eruption of magnitude 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), meaning the measured deposits for that eruption is greater than 1,0...