Forecasting a super eruption means understanding what precedes it.

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Secondary Issues:

   Geological Record of Supereruptions

    Large Igneous Provinces

    Calderas and Silicic Complexes

    Transport to Troposphere and Stratosphere

    Sulfur and Supereruptions

    Volcanic ash in Super Eruptions

    Scaling Up Eruptions

    Global Environmental Effects

    Forecasting a Super Eruption

Reference Page

Macellum Pozzuoli

Dead Trees         Long Valley, CA

Sierra Negra Amelung et al., 2000

Can we forecast eruptions?

What happens before eruptions:

    Seismic activity--Rundle & Hill

    Deformation --Aniakchak

    Gas Emission

    Heat anomalies

    Phreatic and phreatomagmatic

Historic Unrest at Calderas of the world

Long Valley’s pattern - USGS

Lowenstern & Hurwitz: Sleeping Yellowstone

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INSAR and how it works--Z Lu