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The article is one of 7 that address scientific projects that the magazine regards to be suspect in design, and for which it offers recommendations for improvement. This article focuses on the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project that involves the introduction of instrumentation into the Campi Flegrei supervolcano to monitor volcanic activity and provide early warning for evacuation purposes.

The article discusses the activity of supervolcanoes with the help of the fossil supervolcano found at Sesia Valley. Southern Methodist university igneous petrologist James Quick said that the viewable 25 kilometers depth of the supervolcano, they were able to relate the events that started deep within the volcano and the eventual eruption about 285 million years ago. Quick, together with his colleagues, were able to establish that it was the magmatic underplating that caused the eruption by analyzing the ages of eruption.