NASA simulation indicates ancient flood volcanoes could have altered climate

Saturday, August 8, 2015 - 10:30 in Earth & Climate

Flood-basalt eruptions were enormous but not as explosive as eruptions like Pinatubo, which in 1991 propelled gases high into the stratosphere, causing a global cooling event. New simulations reveal flood-basalt eruptions also could have launched their gases high enough to alter climate.

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