The biggest lingering mystery surrounding a volcano that has long kept geologists up at night has finally been resolved. Scientists have now pinpointed its position over 200 years after it erupted.
After much effort, it was discovered that Simushir Island was home to the volcano Zavaritskii. This region is a portion of the Pacific Ocean’s Kuril Islands.
Being one of the most catastrophic eruptions of the 19th century, the volcano has long been considered a type of folklore. But the structure has never been discovered by scientists.
Scientists have known it exploded in the 1830s since its peak at the conclusion of the Little Ice Age, when the effects of its explosion caused the Earth’s temperature to plummet by one degree.
The discovery of a volcano that erupted in the 1830s The most recent finding marks a significant turning point in the field. In order to identify the volcano,
scientists sampled ice cores in Greenland and examined sulphur isotopes and glass shards and ash grains from the eruption. When scientists discovered that sulphur fallout.
