Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption

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The Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption was an enormous supereruption of the Yellowstone hotspot about 2.1 million years ago, producing vast ash deposits and helping form one of the largest known calderas on Earth.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Yellowstone hotspot eruption
supereruption
associatedWith Yellowstone hotspot mantle plume
continental hotspot volcanism
composition rhyolitic
continent North America
country United States
depositExtent widespread ash deposits across western and central North America
depositType intracaldera tuff
outflow sheets
eruptionOf Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera

Yellowstone hotspot
eruptionStyle caldera-forming
plinian
ultra-plinian
fieldOfStudy Quaternary geology
hazard assessment of supereruptions
igneous petrology
volcanology
followedBy Lava Creek Tuff eruption
Mesa Falls Tuff eruption
geologicAge Quaternary
early Pleistocene
helpedForm Huckleberry Ridge caldera
linked to: Island Park Caldera

Yellowstone caldera complex
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera

one of the largest known calderas on Earth
location United States
northwestern Wyoming
present-day Yellowstone region
magnitude supereruption-scale
namedAfter Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
partOf Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field eruptive history
Yellowstone hotspot track
Yellowstone volcanic system
linked to: Yellowstone Caldera
precededBy older Snake River Plain hotspot eruptions
produced Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
ash-fall deposits
ash-flow deposits
ignimbrite
volcanic ash
welded tuff
producedVolume more than 2,000 cubic kilometers of material
over 600 cubic miles of material
significance first of three major Quaternary Yellowstone supereruptions
key event in development of Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field
one of the largest known explosive eruptions on Earth
time about 2.1 million years ago
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Yellowstone Caldera previousCalderaFormingEruption Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption namedAfter Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
linked to: Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption produced Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
linked to: Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption
Mesa Falls Tuff eruption youngerThan Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption
Lava Creek Tuff eruption precededBy Huckleberry Ridge Tuff eruption