Geography - Supervolcanoes
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- Created on: 15-03-16 16:53
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- super-volcanoes
- shape & size
- much bigger
- no cone
- underground
- after eruption leave a huge depression
- effects
- magma flung 50km into atmosphere
- 1000km3 of lava would pour out of volcano
- within 1000km of blast
- ash
- kill and sicken humans and animals
- reduce sunlight
- trigger rainfall
- disrupt all transport
- crush buildings
- kill crops
- clog machinery
- climate change
- solar radiation blocked, reducing temperature
- global temp decreased by up to 10 degrees and could last 6-10 years
- some plant and animal species become extinct
- mass starvation
- shape & size
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