skaptar-jokul

Updated: May 2, 2025

This, however, is limited to the period of geology which gives record of organic life, and not to the earlier astronomical period; nor does it exclude changes in temperature, climate, distribution of seas and lands; nor does it "affirm positively that there may not have been in past ages explosions more violent than that of Krakatoa; lava-streams more extensive than that of Skaptar-Jokul, and earthquakes more powerful than that which uplifted five or six hundred miles of the Pacific coast of South America six or seven feet."

George Tyrrell - The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)