Sentence examples for enormous eruption from inspiring English sources

This is found in layers, derived from large volcanic eruptions in the East Indies, notably the enormous eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, during which ash was transported through the entire area by both wind and currents.

As Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to spew a huge amount of ash into the atmosphere and across northern Europe, Science invites you to read about an enormous eruption from Iceland's past and what it means for the country's future.

Earlier this year, an enormous eruption in Puyehue-Cordon Caulle, Chile had a similar effect, grounding South American travelers for days until the ash settled.

But perhaps the most famous of volcano ecology stories is that of Krakatoa, an enormous eruption that killed some 36,000 people in 1883.

It has storms, in the shape of solar flares, enormous eruptions of plasma that spew charged particles out into space, and coronal mass ejections, which blast a quantity of the Sun's mass out into the solar system.

Now, a new study argues that the asteroid, which hit Earth about 66 million years ago, may have set off the enormous eruptions in an already active system half a world away, SFGate reports.

Pent-up pressure within the volcano spawned an enormous Plinian eruption in 1932.

As it turns out, the whole island was about to blow up in an enormous volcanic eruption anyway, raising the question of why such an expensive project was ever built there in the first place.

The pale-colored rocks northeast of the modern volcano mark the site of the ancient (1.15 million years old) Kulshan caldera that collapsed after an enormous ash eruption one million years ago.

"Without major catastrophes like an enormous volcanic eruption, an unexpected epidemic, a large-scale nuclear war, an asteroid impact, a new ice age, or continued plundering of Earth's resources by partially still primitive technology," they said, "mankind will remain a major geologic force for many millennia, maybe millions of years, to come".

Wielicki thinks the Popigai impact created a global icehouse, similar to the climate disasters seen after enormous volcanic eruptions or the dinosaur-killing impact.