As a kid, I was fascinated by prehistory. I still am, but back then, I could spend hours going through books about ancient life and how the Earth was formed. I blame it on my love for dinosaurs, but that fascination with our world’s distant past never really went away.
So when scientists uncovered how a layer of Earth’s crust formed more than 450 million years ago, I was over the moon. Researchers at the British Geological Survey reexamined rock samples collected decades ago and discovered they came from a massive supervolcano beneath The Wash.
Today, we’ll explore not only the amazing discovery of the Wash supervolcano, but also the fascinating world of supervolcanoes, and what they can tell us about Earth’s past.
