Sentence examples for massive eruption from inspiring English sources

The massive eruption of dance music wasn't just a backdrop to Britpop – it was the true sound of the 90s.

A massive eruption from the Mount Merapi volcano on Friday sent a blistering gas cloud ripping through a mountainside village.

Because St. Helens was also the first massive eruption in a developed country within driving distance of a number of major universities, it is unrivaled as a model for ecosystem recovery.

The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found.

They were previously thought to take between 100,000 to 200,000 years to build up enough pressure for the massive eruption to take place.' However research published in the online journal, Public Library of Science ONE, now suggests the process could take just thousands or even hundreds of years.

The evidence leads to a conclusion that there was a single, massive eruption, Corr says.

The world experiences such massive eruptions about twice a century.

A few such volcanoes have undergone massive eruptions and have expelled a large fraction of their interiors, as did Mount St. Helens in the northwestern United States in 1980.

A second idea is that big impacts cause massive eruptions by shocking the Earth so profoundly that its innards get upset.

Some hot spots are associated with massive eruptions of lava and ash, primarily of basaltic composition, which cover vast areas as extensive as tens or hundreds of square kilometres.

(Observations made in the early 21st century indicated that this single eruption actually consisted of two events about 6,000 years apart: one very large and a second much smaller one. Subsequent massive eruptions occurred about 1,300,000 and 640,000 years ago the last event (consisting in large part of lava flows) producing about two-fifths as much material as the first one.