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Learn how an ancient volcanic eruption in Chile buried a vast landscape, concealing clues on the rise of the Andes Mountains.

Scientists have long wondered where the Kinnekulle tephra came from. It now appears this ancient giant was the source.

The ancient volcano is estimated to be around 454 million years old and erupted long before even dinosaurs walked the Earth.

Toba’s 74,000-year-old super-eruption did not mark the end of its danger. Magma beneath the Indonesian caldera remained capable of driving eruptions for thousands of years, even after parts of the ...

An enormous volcanic eruption buried a snapshot of the baby Andes mountains, revealing a slow-and-steady growth rate.

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

The volcano centered beneath The Wash and stretched into Norfolk and Lincolnshire, covering at least 65 kilometers (around 40 ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcano eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...