A series of studies have since identified a number of factors, including heat transferred into deep oceans and small volcanic eruptions, that affected the temperature at the surface of the Earth.
Earth's history is marked by a number of major mass extinctions of species, triggered by volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts and release of methane from sediments.
Earthquakes are a regular occurrence and eruptions not infrequent.
Shooting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere would also work well, said the Royal Society, as previous volcanic eruptions have showed in the past.
I, for one, cannot fully disassociate the piece from the gaudy though enthralling images of dinosaurs and volcanic eruptions that so entranced me as a small child.
The earliest poems are prolix, or full of what Motion calls "word eruptions", but he finds the later poems strike a "balance between the murkiness and the clarity".
Mount Paektu is far from the edge of the Pacific plate, a lively tectonic boundary, which makes the power of its past eruptions a mystery.
As at the end of the Permian, as at the end of the Cretaceous, huge volcanic eruptions had been going on for hundreds of thousands of years.
Especially when tourists' awful eruptions are good for business?J.
Such systems are now in place all round the world.Volcanic eruptions are dangerous not only to people on the ground, but also to those in the air.
The eruptions sparked the first sustained interest in climate science.
