Greg Breining > Quotes

“It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” the future Mary Shelley wrote, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.” To entertain themselves, they wrote ghost stories. Mary Shelley’s would become Frankenstein.”
― Greg Breining, Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

“The effects could be sufficiently severe to threaten the fabric of civilisation.”
― Greg Breining, Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

“Some of these organisms were photosynthesizing bacteria and cyanobacteria. Others were Archaea, an ancient lineage of single-celled organisms without nuclei long believed to be bacteria but recently put in a kingdom all their own.”
― Greg Breining, Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

“The Deccan Traps volcanoes spilled as much as a half million cubic miles of basalt over an area equal to half of present-day India. In places, the basalt lies more than a mile deep.”
― Greg Breining, Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park