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After 700,000 years of silence, this volcano just woke up

Deep in southeastern Iran, a remote volcanic massif that most of the world had never heard of is suddenly demanding attention. After roughly 700,000 years without a known eruption, Mount Taftan is ...
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This German city is built on an extinct volcano

The Hessian town of Amöneburg is situated on a 365-meter-high basalt cone left by an extinct volcano. It is located in a region that holds a European superlative in this regard. Traces from this era, ...
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It’s almost twice the size of Washington state and stretches 18 miles down into the Earth’s crust – and it’s underwater too

It measures 310,000 square kilometres (119,000 square miles) and its ‘roots’ extend around 30 kilometres (18 miles) into the Earth’s crust. (For comparison, the US state of Washington is 184,661 ...