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the planet's way of admitting it's still molten inside.
means the set of processes by which magma and gas escape a planet's interior to build cones, flood plains, and rewrite coastlines.
from from vulcan, the roman god of fire and forge, whose name the romans borrowed from a sicilian volcano they figured was his workshop chimney.
other worldsio has more active volcanoes than earth
mass extinctionsiberian traps eruptions likely triggered the permian die-off
cooling effectbig eruptions can drop global temps for years
soil bonusvolcanic ash makes some of earth's richest farmland