Recently, scientist William Sager led a team of scientists from the University of Houston in the discovery of the largest volcano on Earth. The group found the volcano underwater roughly 1,000 miles east of Japan and named it Tamu Massif. At 120,000 square miles, it is one of the largest known volcanoes in the solar system and is about the same size as New Mexico. The largest volcano on land, standing at 2,000 square miles, doesn't even compare to Tamu Massif. Scientists believe that this massive volcano is 145 million years old and think that it became inactive a few million years after it was formed. Scientists hope that Tamu Massif can help give them clues on how massive volcanoes like this can form.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/world/biggest-volcano/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
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