supereruptions

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