Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption
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The Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption was an enormous supereruption of the Yellowstone hotspot about 2.1 million years ago, producing vast ash deposits and helping form one of the largest known calderas on Earth.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yellowstone hotspot eruption
ⓘ
supereruption ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yellowstone hotspot mantle plume
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
continental hotspot volcanism ⓘ |
| composition | rhyolitic ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depositExtent | widespread ash deposits across western and central North America ⓘ |
| depositType |
intracaldera tuff
ⓘ
outflow sheets ⓘ |
| eruptionOf |
Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yellowstone hotspot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eruptionStyle |
caldera-forming
ⓘ
plinian ⓘ ultra-plinian ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Quaternary geology
ⓘ
hazard assessment of supereruptions ⓘ igneous petrology ⓘ volcanology ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Lava Creek Tuff eruption
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mesa Falls Tuff eruption NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicAge |
Quaternary
ⓘ
early Pleistocene ⓘ |
| helpedForm |
Huckleberry Ridge caldera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yellowstone caldera complex NERFINISHED ⓘ one of the largest known calderas on Earth ⓘ |
| location |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
northwestern Wyoming ⓘ present-day Yellowstone region ⓘ |
| magnitude | supereruption-scale ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Huckleberry Ridge Tuff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field eruptive history
ⓘ
Yellowstone hotspot track NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellowstone volcanic system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | older Snake River Plain hotspot eruptions ⓘ |
| produced |
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ash-fall deposits ⓘ ash-flow deposits ⓘ ignimbrite ⓘ volcanic ash ⓘ welded tuff ⓘ |
| producedVolume |
more than 2,000 cubic kilometers of material
ⓘ
over 600 cubic miles of material ⓘ |
| significance |
first of three major Quaternary Yellowstone supereruptions
ⓘ
key event in development of Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field ⓘ one of the largest known explosive eruptions on Earth ⓘ |
| time | about 2.1 million years ago ⓘ |
| VEI | 8 ⓘ |
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