Vei-8 Volcanoes - City of Rocks State Park, Galan, Glen Coe, Island Park Caldera, Lake Taupo, Lake Toba, La Garita Caldera, List of Larg (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: City of Rocks State Park, Galan, Glen Coe, Island Park Caldera, Lake Taupo, Lake Toba, La Garita Caldera, List of largest volcanic eruptions, List of large volcanic eruptions, Misema Caldera, Pacana Caldera, Scafells, Taupo Volcano, Timetable of major worldwide volcanic eruptions, Yellowstone Caldera. Excerpt: This article is a list of major volcanic eruptions of approximately at least magnitude 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) or equivalent sulfur dioxide emission around the Quaternary period. Some cooled the global climate; the extent of this effect depends on the amount of sulfur dioxide emitted. The topic in the background is an overview of the VEI and sulfur dioxide emission/ Volcanic winter relationship. Before the Holocene epoch the criteria is less strict because of scarce data availability, partly since later eruptions have destroyed the evidence. So, the known large eruptions after the Paleogene period are listed, and especially those relating to the Yellowstone hotspot, the Santorini, and the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Only some eruptions before the Neogene period are listed. Active volcanoes such as Stromboli, Mount Etna and Kilauea do not appear on this list, but some back-arc basin volcanoes that generated calderas do appear. Some dangerous volcanoes in "populated areas" appear many times: so Santorini, six times and Yellowstone hotspot, twenty-one times. The Bismarck volcanic arc, New Britain and the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand appear often too. In order to keep the list manageable, the eruptions in the Holocene on the link: Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka aren't yet added, but they are listed in Peter L. Ward's supplemental table. The Holocene epoch begins 11,700 years BP, (10 000 C years ago) This is a sortable summary of eruptions over the last 2000 years; date uncertainties, tephra...