volcano

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Scientists now say a volcano might have triggered Black Death.

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"Life probably required some very specialized conditions to get started, like near volcanoes or hydrothermal vents with complex chemistry," Browne said.

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Mosses are well known for surviving in places that challenge most life, including the Himalayan peaks, the scorching deserts of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra, and the cooling surfaces of active volcanoes.

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Some volcanoes, including Mount St. Helens in Washington state and Quizapu in Chile, have occasionally released slow, gentle lava flows even when their magma was rich in gas and considered highly explosive.

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Watkins, a geochemist who specializes in the behavior of minerals at high temperature and pressure, used laboratory equipment capable of simulating the conditions found deep in the crust or beneath a volcano.

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