News From the Field The Deep Roots of Catastrophe
February 7, 2013
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A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of our planet's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don't worry. He says it won't happen for perhaps 200 million years.
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Source University of Utah
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