Supervolcanoes may have shorter fuse
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 16:37
in Earth & Climate
A doomsday volcanic eruption with the power to wipe out civilization may sound like the premise for a bad movie, but so-called supervolcanoes are far from fictional. And now scientists are warning that supervolcanoes require far less time to build up the ammunition for a cataclysmic eruption than once thought.