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Giant Volcanic Calderas

They are craters tens of kilometers in diameter that remain after eruptions far more violent than any in the span ofhuman history. Perhaps 10 of them have been created over the past million years

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 248 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Giant Volcanic Calderas” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 248 No. 6 (), p. 60
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0683-60