London – ‘Letusan vulkanik’ gunung api yang menjadi salah satu bencana paling menghancurkan di Bumi bisa menyebabkan Zaman Es. Salah satu gunung api ini ada di Indonesia.
Letusan ganas yang terjadi tiap 100.000 tahun ini diduga kuat akibat perpaduan suhu dan bentuk ruang magma dalam gunung api tertentu.
Saat di pertemuan tahunan Geological Society of America di Minneapolis, kepala studi Patricia Gregg dari Oregon State University mengatakan, kreasi ‘halo’ batu di ruang magma membuat tekanan tersimpan.
The central Andes Mountains: It takes a 'perfect storm' of conditions to grow an eruptible magma chamber of big enough for a super-volcano
“Pada kasus gunung api besar, saat patahan cukup dalam dan merobek tembok ruang magma dan atap runtuh, letusan pun terjadi,” katanya.
Lake Toba in Sumatra: The eruption of super-volcanoes dwarfs the eruptions of recent volcanoes and can trigger planetary climate change by inducing Ice Ages and other impact
Catastrophic: The Huckleberry Ridge eruption of present-day Yellowstone Park about two million years ago was more than 2,000 times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington
Super eruption: The Yellowstone eruption is one of the largest super-volcano events in history and it has happened several times
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