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ByDavid Bressan,
Senior Contributor.
The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has finally been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica.
In 1458 a volcano erupted with one of the largest eruptions in the last 1,000 years, spewing sulfurous gas and ash high into Earth’s atmosphere. Traces of this sulfur can still be found in ice cores recovered from Greenland and Antarctica.
