The eruption injected massive amounts of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, forming a veil of aerosols that reflected sunlight back into space.
On April 10, 1815 Mount Tambora, an Indonesian volcano, erupted with a force 100 times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. It would prove to be the largest volcanic eruption in nearly ...
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia left a huge crater, along with a sometimes unexpected legacy. Jialiang Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On April 10, 1815, the Tambora volcano ...
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