What Makes Supervolcanoes? With Professor Shan de Silva and Dr. Rachel Phillips

About this episode

The episode explores the characteristics and significance of supervolcanoes with expert guests.

What distinguishes supervolcanoes from regular or non-super volcanoes? How many supervolcanoes are on Earth today? What are the precursors to supervolcano eruptions? In today's deep dive, Dr. Rachel Phillips, from GeoGirl, and I we got to talk to supervolcano researcher, Dr. Shan de Silva, to answer all your supervolcano questions (and more)! Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris, Jesse

Guests: Professor Shan de Silva, Dr. Rachel Phillips

Topics covered

• supervolcanoes
• geology
• volcanic eruptions
• earth science
• natural disasters

Keywords

• supervolcanoes
• volcano research
• eruption precursors
• earth science
• geology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GeoGirl, CampGeo

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