Event
Freaky Friday: Supervolcanoes and the future
Friday, November 16, 2012 17:00
Redpath Museum
859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
Supervolcanoes and the future
By John Stix (Earth and Planetary Sciences, 91黑料网). Why and how do ordinary eruptions turn into global climatic disasters? Read more about Dr. Stixes experiments in and in Nature Geoscience or read his Globe & Mail article about This Freaky Friday presentation will be followed by the film 2012, a 2009 American science fiction disaster film about cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012 including a dramatization of what would happen if the Yellowstone Caldera actually erupted. Read more about the supervolcano under Yellowstone here: .
IMAGE: The volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier spewing ash and grit into the air, April 2010. From Wikimedia Commons.
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