The Eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815Cavendish, Richard
Tambora has mostly been forgotten, even though it was an order of magnitude larger than any other eruption in recent memory. The lesson of Tambora is that something that happens on an unknown island on one side of the world can have dramatic repercussions all over the Earth....
Tambora is classified by specialists as Ultraplinian, the most violent of all categories of volcanic eruption, named in honour of the Younger Pliny's description of the destruction of Pompeii by Vesuvius in AD 79. Such eruptions propel quantities of sulphurous gases into the stratosphere, where th...
The dust from the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) caused a worldwide lowering of temperatures during the summer of 1816, when the Almanac, legend has it, inadvertently but correctly predicted snow for July. ...
The Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in 1991 was almost an order of magnitude larger, and the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 was two orders of magnitude larger. Could Mount St. Helens erupt again? The answer is yes, and in fact, at some point, it almost certainly will. Given ...
Some of the volcanoes are notable for their eruptions, for instance, Krakatau for its global effects in 1883, Lake Toba for its supervolcanic eruption estimated to have occurred 74,000 BP, which was responsible for six years of volcanic winter, andMount Tambora, for the most violent eruption ...
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been obtained to date which reveal the source-to-eruption magmatic process including external controls on pathways and staging. Ross Island lies at the southern end of the late Miocene to Recent Terror Rift (Fig.1), which is located within the larger and older Victoria Land Basin13,14. The ...
Worldwide Effects of the Mount Tambora Eruption Though it would not be apparent for more than a century, the eruption of Mount Tambora contributed to one of the worstweather-related disastersof the 19th century. The following year, 1816, became known as the Year Without a Summer. The dust p...
The article discusses the eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) on April 10, 1815, including its impact on the environmental conditions of planet Earth. An overview of the environmental impact that the volcano had across the world, including...