Sentences with phrase «ancient supervolcano»
The caldera of Eden Patera, an ancient supervolcano, appears black and gray on this color - coded topographic map, where red indicates higher altitudes and blue, purple, and black lower altitudes.
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The three ancient Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions were only the latest in a series of more than 140 as the North American plate of Earth's crust and upper mantle moved southwest over the Yellowstone hotspot, starting 17 million years ago at the Oregon - Idaho - Nevada border.
Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.