The global impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini, Greece |
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| Authors: | D M Pyle |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK, GB |
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| Abstract: | The Minoan eruption of Santorini was a large-magnitude natural event. However, in terms of scale it ranks smaller in erupted
volume and eruptive intensity than the historical eruption of Tambora in 1815 AD, and smaller in sulphur emission and, by
inference, climatic effects than both the Tambora and Mt. Pinatubo, 1991, eruptions. Eruption statistics for the past 2000
years indicate that Minoan-size eruptions typically occur at a rate of several per thousand years. Eruptions resulting in
a Minoan-scale injection of sulphur to the stratosphere occur far more frequently – at a rate of one or two per century. Inferences
of massive sociological, religious and political impacts from such eruptions owe more to mythology than reality.
Received: 28 November 1995 · Accepted: 9 January 1996 |
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| Keywords: | Explosive volcanic eruptions Volcano-climate interaction Thera Greece |
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