What is the greatest amount of lava that has ever erupted from any
volcano?
Amber Rose
Hi Amber,
Probably the largest historic lava flow was erupted in Iceland from part
of the Grimsvotn volcano system called Laki. Thorvaldur Thordarson and
Steve Self calculated a lava flow volume of 14.7 cubic kilometers of lava.
Their article that describes this eruption is in the Bulletin of
Volcanology, and the exact reference can be found using the Bulletin of
Volcanology index in VolcanoWorld.
Sincerely,
Scott Rowland
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