Discovery of the largest historic silicic submarine eruption

• Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
• Main Authors: Carey, RJ, Wysoczanski, R, Wunderman, R, Jutzeler, M
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Volcanology; Havre; New Zealand; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO190001; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/91375

It was likely twice the size of the renowned Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 and perhaps more than 10 times bigger than the more recent 2010 Eyjafjallajkull eruption in Iceland. However, unlike those two events, which dominated world news headlines, in 2012 the daylong submarine silicic eruption a...