A large volcanic eruption shook Deception Island 3,980 years ago
Monday, November 26, 2018 - 11:50
in Earth & Climate
A large volcanic eruption shook Deception Island, in Antarctica, 3,980 years ago, and not 8,300, as it was previously thought. This event was the largest eruption in the austral continent during the Holocene, and it was comparable in volume of ejected rock to the Tambora volcano eruption in 1815.