Dr. Anjana Khatwa

Oh, I know.

It sounds awful, doesn't it?

So I'm imagining as these eruptions are occurring, the basalts are building up.

And hopefully in 50 years, what we might see, if these eruptions are quite continuous and quite prolific, we might see bits of land popping up above sea level, which might help your migratory birds.

What we're seeing 100 years on now is the development of what I think could be a line of fire, which you can trace all the way down of what would have been the mid-Atlantic ridge.

Our embryonic crust is pulled down into the mantle.

Parts of it will melt and it will rise up as semi-molten fluid and then it will start to create these incredible volcanic islands.

So if I'm standing on the coast of Cornwall, I can see it in my mind now.

I'm drifting off into a wonderful reverie of volcanic islands punctuating dotted along the eyeline of the sea there.

Those eruptions eject into the atmosphere particles of all sorts, but especially volcanic glass, which is incredibly dangerous for jet engines.

So we are going to have to really change our behaviours in the aftermath of this.

So 100 years down the line, our descendants will have understood how to survive, how to become more resilient, how to travel around in a different way.

And those stories would have been passed down.

Geologically speaking, we're going to see the formation of a brand new continent where you start to see the emergence of those volcanic islands grow and coalesce together to form new land.

It'll be interesting to see how that begins to influence and change humanity if indeed humanity still exists.

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