The bad news is, we can't tell when, or where, something called a large igneous province (or LIP) could form.

坏消息是，我们不知道何时何地会形成一个叫作“大火成岩省”的东西。

Now, Kilauea is a volcano rather than a large igneous province, but it makes it clear that magma is still flowing to the Earth's surface, and there's plenty more down in the Earth's core and mantle.

如今，基拉韦厄是一座火山，而不是一个大火成岩省，但是它清楚地表明了岩浆依然在流向地球表面，在地下还有更多的岩浆，位于地核和地幔中。

Most of us know about an asteroid hitting the Earth and wiping out the dinosaurs, but most people don't know that the Earth nearly got devastated by a large igneous province that formed in Siberia 250 million years ago.

我们很多人都知道，一颗小行星撞上了地球导致恐龙灭绝了，但是许多人不知道 2.5 亿年前，在西伯利亚形成的一个大火成岩省几乎摧毁了地球。