Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M after 7 years of drilling

Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by mschuster91 on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:34PM (#36948387)

> And who knows how many of them happened during the past millennia.

We at least have a significantly large list of what we know [1] - that's part of the purpose of core drilling, the ash deposits worldwide can be linked together to estimate where ash traveled to. Also, craters and their surrounding can be drilled into to determine eruption events.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_volcanic_eruptio...

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Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by pmayrgundter on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:56PM (#36948682)

Here's a study:

The size and frequency of the largest explosive eruptions on Earth, Mason 2004

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227000709_The_size_...

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