supereruption

Noun

supereruption (plural supereruptions)

1. Overeruption.
2. The massive eruption of a supervolcano.
   • Another study performed by Stanley Ambrose, a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois in 1998, suggests that a bottleneck occurred in human evolution at around 70,000 years ago, coinciding with a volcanic winter following the Toba supereruption.2003, Ian Lawton, Genesis Unveiled: The Lost Wisdom of Our Forgotten Ancestors, London: Virgin, →ISBN, page 143
   • Though the causes and interactions remain incompletely understood, study of extinctions does show that life on Earth is fragile. Extinctions have occurred regularly throughout Earth history and all of life is vulnerable to the violent actions of this mobile planet and to the effects of giant...2006, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, The Earth and the Moon, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 107