#Largest Volcano?
15-Dec-94 09:05:28
Sb: #158154-#Largest Volcano?
Fm: RICHARD I GIBSON 71005,2116
To: Scott Hartlieb 74632,320
Hi Scott, I'm not a volcanologist either and some of this info goes beyond your
10,000-year area of interest but here goes:
Mt St Helens, 1-2 cubic km
Katmai, Alaska 1912, 7 cu km
Krakatoa, 18 cu km
Mazama, 75 cu km
Tamboro, 150 cu km
Yellowstone National Park : Mesa Falls Tuff (1.2 million yrs) 280 cu km; Lava
Creek tuff (600,000 yrs) 1000 cu km; Huckleberry Ridge Tuff (2.2 million yrs)
2500 cu km.
Info is from the Indiana University Geology Field Camp guidebook, citing Smith
& Braile (1982)– Crustal structure and evolution of an explosive silicic
volcanic system at Yellowstons, 1982 Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook.
Hope this is useful. Cheers, Dick Gibson