People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

It isn't surprising that in such a remote location, there hasn't been much research done on the eruption history of Zavaritskii. There were a few small eruptions in the 1900s, but the history prior to ...

"Rootless cones form when lava flows over wet or icy ground, causing it to boil and explode," said Dundas. "The region around ...

Bárdarbunga last erupted in 2014 producing relatively effusive lava flows but in 1477, it erupted violently producing what is considered the largest eruption in Iceland’s recorded history.

In 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption's effects altered Earth’s climate for years and even led to the “year without summer” in 1816.

The event, which took place in 1831, was one of the largest eruptions of ... poor understanding of their eruptive history—i.e. the size and date of past eruptions," study lead author William ...