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Large Impacts May Cause Volcanic Eruptions

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Really big meteorite or asteroid strikes may cause melting and deep deformations that eventually lead to volcanic eruptions.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.8

The other rocky planets in our solar system show a common feature. Within giant craters

0:44.0

caused by impacts, there's evidence of volcanic activity, which made scientists wonder. Can

0:49.4

big impacts actually cause volcanic eruptions? And has that scenario ever happened here?

0:56.8

To find out, scientists went to one of the few massive craters on Earth not erased by plate tectonics,

1:02.5

the Sudbury crater in Canada.

1:04.3

Sudbury is a 1.85 billion years old impact structure.

1:09.6

Teresa Ubide, a geochemist at the University of Queensland in Australia.

1:13.3

Sarbury was generated when a bollite of 10 to 15 kilometers in diameter hit Earth. And what happened

1:22.8

was it obviously generated a large basin and also melted the crust on top of the earth at that time

1:30.5

and generated a massive melt pool, 2.5 kilometers in depth.

1:36.4

But Ubedee and her colleagues found that the impact did more than that.

1:39.8

It also seems to have triggered eruptions of magma that came from deep in the mantle.

1:44.4

The evidence lies in the fact that the chemistry of the lava that erupted at Sudbury changed over time.

1:50.1

At first, it matched the surface rocks, suggesting it was just from local melting.

1:54.5

But as the eruptions continued, the lava appeared to come from deep in the mantle,

1:58.8

suggesting the impact stirred things up inside the earth.

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