massive eruption in a sentence

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1. Because St . Helens was also the first massive eruption in a developed country within driving distance of a number of major universities, it is unrivaled as a model for ecosystem recovery.
2. As the sun set Tuesday on Mount Usu, clouds of thick black smoke poured from of one of its gaping craters, and scientists warned that a massive eruption could be brewing.
3. The flares _ massive eruptions of hydrogen from the sun's surface _ were observed by researchers at the National Solar Observatory in southern New Mexico on the morning of Oct . 31.
4. The featured article 1980 eruption of Mount St . Helens describes, in great detail, the massive eruption of the Mount St . Helens volcano in Washington state on May 18, 1980.
5. Montserrat government Saturday urged die-hards to abandon homes endangered by the Soufriere Hills volcano, warning of an imminent, massive eruption that could cause a tidal wave that might affect other islands.
6. The massive eruptions 200 million years ago tore apart the ancient continent of Pangea and may have caused a mass extinction of animals, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
7. Volcanic material that smothered the city spewed out from the massive eruption, which blew out much of the middle of the island in 17th Century B . C ., sending ash as far as Greenland.
8. The massive eruption of Toba supervolcano that occurred some time between 69, 000 and 77, 000 years ago instigated the Toba catastrophe theory, a global volcanic winter that caused a bottleneck in human evolution.
9. In 1980, a massive eruption of Mount St . Helens in southwestern Washington killed 57 people, dumped tons of ash on towns across the region and set off one of the most powerful landslides in history.
10. Though there is no well-defined minimum explosive size for a " supervolcano ", there are at least two types of volcanic eruptions that have been identified as supervolcanoes : large igneous provinces and massive eruptions.