The huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora’s estimated 4,000-meter-high peak was removed, and the magma chamber below emptied during the 1815 eruption. Today ...

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According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes in climate, and the ritual sun stone sacrifices. In addition to a ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a ...

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Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia—the largest recorded eruption in human history. This data showed that some kind of eruption took place ...