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Is this even in the same league with Yellowstone?


10 posted on 12/23/2006 4:09:59 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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Is this even in the same league with Yellowstone?

Yeah, but still quite a bit smaller.

The largest known explosive eruption was the La Garita Caldera in Colorado 28 million years ago - about 5,000 cubic kilometers of material.

Toba is second with 2,800 cubic km.

The largest of the Yellowstone eruptions (the one three eruptions ago, 2 million years ago) is 4th with 2,500 cu km.

The last Yellowstone eruption 640,000 years ago was about 1000 cubic km of stuff - the largest Taupo eruption was 500 cubic km.

Taupo seems to erupt a lot more often than Yellowstone though.

34 posted on 12/23/2006 4:34:47 PM PST by Strategerist
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Is this even in the same league with Yellowstone?

Taupo is the lake that formed in its crater, larger than Lake Tahoe (616 square km, as compared to 500). It was a rhyolite eruption, one of the largest to have ever take place, and would have changed the weather for at least decades.

54 posted on 12/23/2006 6:05:09 PM PST by BlazingArizona
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