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November 30 - Researchers: ‘Super Eruption’ More Likely
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The researchers with the university’s schools of earth Sciences and Mathematics, in a report published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, estimated how often the largest explosive eruptions happen. The average time, they discovered, was approximately 12,000 years—which coincides with what archeologists call the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution. The lead researcher, Jonathan Rougier, wrote:
The previous estimate, made in 2004, was that super-eruptions occurred on average every 45 to 714 thousand years, comfortably longer than our civilization, [but] we re-estimate this range as 5.2 to 48 thousand years, with a best guess value of 17 thousand years.
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