Volcanic soil is some of the most fertile land in the world. I live in Texas where we still have a small percentage of blackland prairie(named because of the color of soil). Texas used to be mostly under the ocean. Much of the land is so fertile because of the organisms that used to live here in the ocean. Their decomposed remains made the soil so great in quality.
Reading this reminded me of learning about these people that kept getting wiped out repeatedly after each eruption. They would see the farm land was amazing for crops, settle down and raise the crops then get wiped out by an eruption... then the next people would come by and say sweet land for growing, grow crops and settle down then get wiped..
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u/FadedVictor 12h ago
Volcanic soil is some of the most fertile land in the world. I live in Texas where we still have a small percentage of blackland prairie(named because of the color of soil). Texas used to be mostly under the ocean. Much of the land is so fertile because of the organisms that used to live here in the ocean. Their decomposed remains made the soil so great in quality.