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    Ignimbrite is a type of volcanic rock, consisting of hardened tuff. Ignimbrites form from the deposits of pyroclastic flows, which are a hot suspension...
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  • Thumbnail for Campanian Ignimbrite eruption
    The Campanian Ignimbrite eruption (CI, also CI eruption) was a major volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean during the late Quaternary, classified 7 on...
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    The Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up, was a dramatic period of volcanic eruptions in mid-Cenozoic time, approximately 25–40 million years ago, centered...
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    ejected more than 340 cubic kilometres (82 cu mi) of rhyolitic Mamaku ignimbrite giving it a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7. The eruption has been reinterpreted...
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    320 km3 (77 cu mi) of pyroclastic density current (PDC) deposits (mostly ignimbrite) and 420 km3 (100 cu mi) of primary intracaldera material, equivalent...
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    stick together as a rock called ignimbrite. Pyroclastic flows can travel hundreds of kilometres an hour. Earlier ignimbrite eruptions occurred further north...
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  • 56 mya Chaxas ignimbrite in the Andes. The ignimbrite dips away from the domes and are partially younger than the Puripicar ignimbrite. The dome has a...
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    source of the Galán ignimbrite, which covered the surroundings of the caldera with volcanic material. The volume of this ignimbrite has been estimated...
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    and Chile. In the Miocene–Pliocene (10-1 mya), calderas erupted felsic ignimbrites in four distinct pulses separated by periods of low levels of activity...
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    Pleistocene volcanic complex in Chile close to Bolivia, formed by an ignimbrite, several lava domes and stratovolcanoes and one maar. It is in the Chilean...
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  • produced more than 1,000 km3 (240 cu mi) of rhyodacitic-rhyolitic ignimbrite. The ignimbrite from this eruption forms the 10-to-1,350-metre-thick (33 to 4...
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    volcanic sandstone. The ignimbrite displays zonation typical of welded ashflow tuffs and is a prominent ridge former. The ignimbrite was radiometrically dated...
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    Cienago Ignimbrite erupted over 350 cubic kilometres (84 cu mi) from Panizos about 7.9 million years ago, and 6.7 million years ago the Panizos Ignimbrite erupted...
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    Geological Maps of Japan". Geological Survey of Japan, AIST. "Thórsmörk Ignimbrite(correlated to Ash Zone 2)". VOGRIPA. Retrieved 27 May 2024. This source...
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    ; Best, Myron G. (1 August 2013). "The 36–18 Ma Indian Peak–Caliente ignimbrite field and calderas, southeastern Great Basin, USA: Multicyclic super-eruptions"...
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  • years old Tatio ignimbrite however is considered to be separate. An older ignimbrite was erupted 2.21±0.05 million years ago. An ignimbrite is associated...
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    I included both a rhyolitic ignimbrite and a simultaneous Plinian dispersal of rhyolitic tephra fallout. The ignimbrite consisted of 9 separate packages...
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    recorded by sanidine. Two samples from ignimbrite visually closely similar to unit 1 or 2, the oldest ignimbrite units of the Lava Creek Tuff, have 40Ar/39Ar...
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    Valleys had been filled with ignimbrite, evening out the shape of the land. The Waikato River had been blocked by ignimbrite deposits with the lowest blockage...
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    evidence of a human origin and they concluded the formation is a natural ignimbrite outcrop formed 330,000 years ago. Archaeologist Neville Ritchie of the...
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    kilometres (43 cu mi)) Toconao ignimbrite. The Pujsa ignimbrite was erupted by La Pacana before the Atana/Toconao ignimbrites, and the Filo Delgado and Pampa...
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  • Two major ignimbrites, the 5.6-5.8 mya Guacha ignimbrite with a volume of 1,300 cubic kilometres (310 cu mi) and the 3.5-3.6 mya Tara ignimbrite with a volume...
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    proceeded through three major volcanic cycles. Each cycle involved a large ignimbrite eruption, continental-scale ash-fall, and caldera collapse, preceded and...
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    Creek Caldera was found to be a match to the Peach Spring Tuff after an ignimbrite sample from within the caldera matched the phenocryst makeup and age of...
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    eruptions have created several ignimbrites. An eruption occurred 73,000 years ago and formed the Campo de la Piedra Pómez ignimbrite layer. About 2,300 ± 160...
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    The Fish Canyon Tuff is the large volcanic ash flow or ignimbrite deposit resulting from one of the largest known explosive eruptions on Earth, estimated...
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    (48 cu mi) of magma (500 km3 (120 cu mi) bulk volume) to produce the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption. Its Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) was 7 and it left a large...
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  • Los Frailes is an ignimbrite plateau in Bolivia, between the city of Potosi and the Lake Poopo. It belongs to a group of ignimbrites that exist in the...
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    the source of the Incapillo ignimbrite, a medium-sized deposit comparable to the Katmai ignimbrite. The Incapillo ignimbrite was erupted 0.52 ± 0.03 and...
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    Matahina ignimbrite is exposed north of the Tarawera River in the embayment, Rotoiti ignimbrite at its southern margins and Kawerau ignimbrite at its centre...
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