scholarly journals Post-supereruption recovery at Toba Caldera

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adonara E. Mucek ◽  
Martin Danišík ◽  
Shanaka L. de Silva ◽  
Axel K. Schmitt ◽  
Indyo Pratomo ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adonara E. Mucek ◽  
Martin Danišík ◽  
Shanaka L. de Silva ◽  
Daniel P. Miggins ◽  
Axel K. Schmitt ◽  
...  

AbstractSupervolcanoes like Toba Caldera, Sumatra, produce the largest eruptions on Earth. However, the magmatic conditions and processes during the period of recovery after catastrophic supereruptions, known as resurgence, are poorly understood. Here we use Bayesian statistical analysis and inverse thermal history modelling of feldspar argon-argon and zircon uranium-thorium/helium ages to investigate resurgence after the 74-thousand-year-old Youngest Toba Tuff eruption. We identify a discordance of up to around 13.6 thousand years between older feldspar and younger zircon ages. Our modelling suggests cold storage of feldspar antecrysts prior to eruption for a maximum duration of around 5 and 13 thousand years at between 280 °C and 500 °C. We propose that the solidified carapace of remnant magma after the Youngest Toba Tuff eruption erupted in a subsolidus state, without being thermally remobilized or rejuvenated. Our study indicates that resurgent uplift and volcanism initiated approximately 5 thousand years after the climactic caldera forming supereruption.


2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Sakaguchi ◽  
Hersh Gilbert ◽  
George Zandt

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Budd ◽  
Valentin R. Troll ◽  
Frances M. Deegan ◽  
Ester M. Jolis ◽  
Victoria C. Smith ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Winda Lestari Turnip

The topography of the Tampahan area which tends to be steep and dominated by tuff lithology can result in a landslide. The intensity of landslides and the resulting losses can be reduced by the analysis of landslide-prone areas in Tampahan. The administration of the area is located in Toba Samosir Regency, North Sumatra Province which is included in the Toba Caldera Region. Analysis of landslide-prone areas is carried out with five parameters namely slope, land use, morphological elevation, lithology, and rainfall. The data processed in this analysis comes from field data, DEMNas (National Digital Elevation Model), and other spatial data. Classification of each parameter and weighting based on literature is away in the analysis of landslide-prone areas of Tampahan. Then do each parameter overlay to get the value of landslide-prone and distinguished based on the calculation of the landslide class interval. The results are divided into five classes that are prone to landslides, namely classes not prone (1-1,8), rather prone (1,8-2,6), quite prone (2,6-3,4), prone (3,4-4,2), and very prone (4,2-5). Based on the analysis that has been done, some areas are very prone to landslides in the southeast while areas that are not prone to landslides are in the southwest of the study area. Therefore, landslide-prone studies are categorized as high landslides with almost 60% coverage of the study area.


Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Witman

A mineral-dating project at the Toba caldera in Indonesia sheds light on the science of supereruptions.


Science ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 346 (6209) ◽  
pp. 617-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jaxybulatov ◽  
N. M. Shapiro ◽  
I. Koulakov ◽  
A. Mordret ◽  
M. Landes ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. jgs2021-120
Author(s):  
Nicholas J.G. Pearce ◽  
Emma Gatti ◽  
Hema Achyuthan

Acheulean artefacts are widely known from archaeological complexes in India and commonly comprise handaxes, picks and cleavers. These provide information on human occupation and evolution across India, and have been the subject of much research on stone technology. In some of these sites, artefacts are associated with a Pleistocene volcanic ash layer derived from the Toba caldera in Sumatra, but various studies have derived a wide range of ages from this deposit leading to differing schools of thought as to the age of the tephra. Recent trace element, fission track and mineralogical studies (since 2011), have enabled accurate recognition of each Toba eruptive unit across their fall out, but these approaches continue to be overlooked in some studies where artefacts and Toba tephra co-exist in India. This leads to significant errors in tephra identification, and thus hampers any derived age interpretations. Most recently, this includes the study by Deo et al. (2021) who, in Geological Society Special Publication 515 (Tiwari et al., 2021), report ages for artefacts and tephra from two sites in the Deccan Volcanic Province which have become pivotal in many arguments, namely Morgaon and Bori. Here we address these issues and reiterate the methods for identification of the three main Toba tephra deposits.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukman Sutrisno ◽  
Fred Beekman ◽  
Yunus Daud ◽  
Jan Diederik Van Wees

<p>Regional magnetotelluric (MT) survey had been conducted to image resistivity structures beneath Toba Caldera, Indonesia. A crustal-scale 2D inversion model is generated from ten MT stations with extended recording time, deployed along NE-SW regional line to cross perpendicularly both the Caldera and the nearby regional strike-slip fault system, the Sumatran Fault. High resistivity background is likely related to Palaeozoic rocks which is basement of the Tertiary sediments and the Quaternary volcanics. The most noticeable conductive anomaly is located between 10-20 km deep, interpreted as the main magma reservoir beneath the region. An intermediate, less than 10 km-deep, less conductive anomaly beneath the Caldera is interpreted as shallow magma chamber affected by the last major eruption. Shallow, less than 2 km-deep conductive layers are associated either with hydrothermal clay cap beneath the Caldera, or sedimentary formations of the nearby basins. Other conductive anomaly is spatially associated with the Sumatran Fault which located 15 km away from the Caldera. Parameter plots of some stations are consistent with the orientation of basement structures, while the others may be affected by more complex caldera structures. A conceptual model of magma plumbing system beneath the Caldera is then interpreted from the combination of regional resistivity structures, surface geology, and available seismic tomography.</p>


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