Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2021)

Supereruption doublet at a climate transition

  • Alice R. Paine,
  • Fabian B. Wadsworth,
  • James U. L. Baldini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00293-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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About 74,000 years ago Earth’s climate abruptly transitioned to particularly severe cold and dry conditions, which lasted for several millennia. An incomplete eruption record may be why volcanic eruptions were dismissed as the trigger.