An event known as the Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up caused several volcanic eruptions across the western United States during the middle of the Cenozoic Period some 40-25 million years ago. What’s striking, however, is the apparent lack of catastrophic consequences on nature brought about by the cataclysmic event.
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