Even those who continue to claim a supereruption during the 3rd m BC can’t account for either the sudden failure of the Minoan civ either 80 or around 200 years after the supposed supereruption — particularly since the ash strata left on Crete — ash purportedly from Thera — is only mm’s in thickness.
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