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600,000 years ago
- When a supervolcano erupted 600,000 years ago in Wyoming, in what today is Yellowstone National Park, it ejected more than 1,000 cubic km of ash and lava into the atmosphere - enough to bury a large city to a depth of a few kilometres.
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Mar 19, 2019 · According to an investigation by volcanologist Erik Klemetti for Wired, the origins of the term “supervolcano” are far from scientific. It was used as far back as 1925 in the travelogue...
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The term "supervolcano" was first used in a volcanic context in 1949. Its origins lie in an early 20th-century scientific debate about the geological history and features of the Three Sisters volcanic region of Oregon in the United States.
Dec 7, 2023 · A supervolcano is a volcano that has produced at least one supereruption, meaning that at some point in its history, it has ejected more than 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic kilometers) of...
Europe's only known supervolcano, the Phlegrean Fields area located across the Bay of Naples from Mt. Vesuvius, last erupted 35,000 years ago [source: Geological Society of London].
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There are more than 1,000 active volcanoes dotted around our planet, but only a select few have produced unimaginably colossal eruptions, earning themselves the title of supervolcano. Find out more about supervolcanoes - what they are, what their eruptions are like and how they impact our planet.
Nov 10, 2023 · “When a volcano is called a supervolcano, what we really mean is it had a super eruption once, at least, in the past,” said Christopher Kilburn, a volcanologist at University College London.
Apr 29, 2024 · Volcanologists say the eruptions occurred at gaps of about 600,000 to 800,000 years. Evidence from the last big event, estimated to have to been about 640,000 years ago, is sprawled throughout the park and across thousands of kilometers of the surrounding landscape.
