‘Rosetta Stone’ of Supervolcanoes Discovered in Italian Alps

By Tim Hewison, posted on October 2nd, 2009 in Disasters, Earth Observation

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

A fossil supervolcano has been revealed in a rare uplift of the Earth’s crust in the Sesia Valley of the Italian Alps. (Southern Methodist University press release)

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