Meanings
adjectiveultraplinian (not comparable)
- not comparableMore powerful than that of Vesuvius in AD 79 (witnessed by Pliny the younger)
The volcanic components of fluvio-lacustrine sedimentary series in Southern Apennines are mainly associated with the plinian and ultraplinian eruptions of Roccamonfina and Vulture volcanoes.
2015 October 13, “A Human Deciduous Tooth and New 40Ar/39Ar Dating Results from the Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Site of Isernia La Pineta, Southern Italy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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