Supereruption

Quick meaning: Supereruption is a noun meaning (dentistry) Overeruption.

Meaning

(dentistry) Overeruption.

More Meanings

1. The massive eruption of a supervolcano.

Example Sentences

The Los Alamos mesa rested against the eastern slope of the Jemez Mountains, on the rime of the Valles Caldera, formed as a result of two explosive super-eruptions 1.6 and 1.1 million years ago.

Another study performed by Stanley Ambrose, a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois in 1998, suggests that a bottleneck occurred in human evolution at around 70,000 years ago, coinciding with a volcanic winter following the Toba supereruption.

All these lines of evidences (formation of giant calderas like 11-18 k, Oued Dar'a caldera in the Saghro massif, ignimbrites, and thick successions and ignimbrite flow unites without any intervening sedimentary units) point toward an occurrence of multiple supervolanoes/supereruptions (resembling the 74, 000 yr Toba event) during emplacement of the ca. 580 Ma pulse of the Central Iapetus magmatic province.

Word Forms

• supereruptions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overobturation, overburst, overshift, overbreak, overprotraction, superexcrescence.

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