When people try to imagine the biggest volcanic eruption in history, they oftentimes picture a single mountain exploding with unimaginable force and sending ash across the continents. But the reality is perhaps far more dramatic. Some of the largest eruptions happened so long ago that no human being has ever witnessed them.
Scientists have been left to reconstruct the story of our planet using buried layers of ash, hardened volcanic rocks, and enormous collapsed craters. So, what have they found? Which volcanic eruptions throughout our planet’s history can be considered the biggest? Click on to find out.