Mount Agung's last catastrophic eruption in 1963 created the black - rock beach and the sand on which sits the USS Liberty. (divehappy.com)
That global warming 66 million years ago was due to catastrophic eruptions in India, which emitted a pulse of CO2 that sent global temperatures soaring by 7 °C (13 °F). (skepticalscience.com)
These magmas, however, did not reach the surface to trigger a catastrophic eruption but instead slowly cooled at depth and hardened into plutonic rock. (sciencedaily.com)