A Sea of Ignimbrite (Patreon)
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2022-01-03 22:50:23
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2026-06
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What you are looking at is a vast field of rhyodacite pumice which was all erupted in a single eruption. More than 1,000 km^3 was ejected, burying everything in a 40 km radius when Cerro Galan erupted 2.08 million years ago.
Photo Credit: Rodolfo Pace, Flickr, CC BY 2.0
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