Mt tambora

Mt. Tambora

Mt. Tambora was one of the largest eruptions to every hit the
face of this earth. Mt. Tambora erupted two times but the
largest eruption occurred on April 10th, 1815. The other
eruption occurred in 1967.

Mount Tambora is an active stratovolcano which is a peninsula
of the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked
both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and Tambora was
formed by the active subduction zone beneath it.

The magma content of Mt. Tambora was obliviously high,
seeing as though it was the last eruption recorded in the history
of eruptions.

Tambora blew up in 1815 and blasted 12 cubic miles of gases,
dust and rock into the atmosphere and onto the island of
Sumbawa and the surrounding area.

The Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted in April 1815,
but North America and Europe did not notice its effects
until months later. In 1816, known as "the year without a
summer", gases, ashes and dust arrived over the Iberian
Peninsula and reached the stratosphere, where they
remained long enough to create "an enormous sun filter.

Reggie Starks