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The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate.
In 2016, a study revealed that the Toba Supervolcano has a magma chamber containing 50,000 cubic kilometres (12,000 cu mi) of eruptible magma, about 30–50 kilometres (19–31 mi) underground. [30] This makes the supervolcano's magma chamber more than four times larger than the volume of Lake Superior in North America, and also larger than the ...
Toba supereruption Pleistocene human population bottleneck Toba catastrophe theory Bcndz5 09:28, 5 April 2023 (UTC) Maybe, considering that recent studies on the Toba supereruption have dramatically increased its volume estimates, and has been mentioned to be among the largest ignimbrites ever discovered.
In 2013 Lane was involved in a project which sought to examine the impacts of the Toba supereruption in Africa using a sediment core from Lake Malawi . [4] The team were able to identify ash from the eruption, dated to 75,000 years before present, in the lake sediment, however found no evidence of the volcanic winter previously hypothesised.
The most recent eruptions of other notable supervolcanoes, including Long Valley in California, Toba in Indonesia, and Campi Flegrei, were all around the same size. Scientists have a 2,000-year ...
An iconic volcano is an exploding mountain — think Vesuvius or Washington's Mount Saint Helens, which erupted in 1980 — but supervolcanoes typically look unassuming. ... like the Toba eruption ...
Mount Sinabung (Indonesian: Gunung Sinabung, [2] Karo: Deleng Sinabung [3]) is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite in the Karo plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Lake Toba supervolcano.