Sentences with phrase «supervolcano erupted»

And even if the climate did not change much, there would be global consequences if a supervolcano erupted today.

I greatly enjoyed your deep future special, but was surprised to read that the chance of a supervolcano erupting in...

Richard # 63, for that weather to last long enough to become a climatological forcing (it would have to take gigatons of carbon out of one system and dump it into another) it would either have to be a catastrophic event (clathrates suddenly erupting, supervolcano erupting, etc) or long lasting (in which case open to climatological statistics rather than weather chaotics).

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Supervolcanoes are classified as volcanoes that spew out more than a trillion tonnes of material when they erupt — equivalent to 30 Krakatoas.

Large - scale eruptions happen roughly on 25 - million - year timescales; a regional supervolcano could erupt at Yellowstone in the next few thousand.

The supervolcano beneath Yellowstone has rhyolitic magma, which tends to erupt catastrophically.

A supervolcano has erupted somewhere on the planet every 100,000 years or so, but usgs experts say that current geologic activity at Yellowstone «provides no signs that a supereruption will occur in the near future.»

This potentially puts our species on Sumatra when the island's supervolcano — Toba — erupted about 71,000 years ago.

«The magma that originally erupted from the supervolcano had about 1,400 ppm lithium in it,» said Benson, describing a red - hot pyroclastic flow of pumice, ash, crystals, and rock that spread for 50 miles in all directions.

Italy's supervolcano appears to have been building energy over the last 60 years — and it could be ready to erupt.