- Youngest Toba eruption - Wikipedia
The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia
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- Geo Explainer: Toba supervolcano, the biggest eruption in human history
Toba is one of 20 supervolcanos on Earth today, the most famous being Yellowstone in the USA A supervolcano is one that, at some point in history, released more than 1,000 cubic kilometres of magma during an eruption (a ‘supereruption’)
- Mount Toba | Eruption, Volcano, Activity, Map | Britannica
Mount Toba, ancient volcano located in the Barisan Mountains, north-central Sumatra, Indonesia A massive eruption sometime between 71,000 and 74,000 years ago expelled an estimated 2,800 cubic km (about 670 cubic miles) of ash and lava
- How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution
The Indonesian volcano was not a harbinger of doom It was a catalyst for innovation Even a Toba-induced genetic bottleneck now seems unlikely
- The Toba Catastrophe: Supervolcano, Volcanic Winter, and the Near-Miss . . .
Today, Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, looks like a serene highland lake about 100 km long and 30 km wide, with a large island (Samosir) sitting in the middle That entire basin is the collapsed scar of a VEI-8 supervolcano—the highest category on the Volcanic Explosivity Index A few key facts: Location: Sumatra, Indonesia (on the Sunda arc, where the Indo-Australian plate
- The Most Extreme Volcanic Eruption in Ancient History
Roughly 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the island of Sumatra in modern-day Indonesia, releasing an enormous amount of ash into the atmosphere This ash settled in different
- Toba | Volcano World | Oregon State University
Toba caldera produced the largest eruption in the last 2 million years The caldera is 18 x 60 miles (30 by 100 km) and has a total relief of 5,100 feet (1700 m)
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