Petrogenesis of the toba tuffs, sumatra, indonesia oxford. Lake toba volcano magma cham gfzpublic gfz potsdam. Geochemical fingerprinting of the widespread toba tephra. Ashflow tuffs were erupted from the complex every 0. Toba caldera complex, north sumatra, indonesia, modified after knight et al. Stratigraphy of the toba t u s and the evolution of the toba caldera complex, s umatra. Lake toba volcano magma chamber imaged by ambient seismic noise tomography. Our data do not preclude the presence of hotter regions or even a small, persistent, dominantly liquid magma body, as long as these were thermally isolated from the storage location of the analyzed zircon crystals. Black squares mark sample locations see appendix 1 for details. Pusikbukit volcano is a prominent postytt edifice on the western edge of the lake.
Eruptive history of earths largest quaternary caldera. The toba supereruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 75,000 years ago at. Geochemical fingerprinting of the widespread toba tephra using biotite compositions. Please bear with us while we work towards adding this information. Pdf sukhyar volcanological survey of indonesia, bandung, indonesia 1 abstract.
This explanation is also consistent with shear velocity evidence for a complex of sills beneath a similar volcano, toba. Toba, together with yellowstone, long valley, valles caldera, taupo volcano, and aira caldera, is one of the secret six. The toba caldera complex of northern sumatra, indonesia fig. Eruptions that shook the world by clive oppenheimer. Tectonic setting and location maps of the toba caldera complex.
A large magmatic sill complex beneath the toba caldera science. The second kind of caldera is a shield volcano caldera. Distribution of magma beneath the toba caldera complex, north sumatra, indonesia. We have estimated the possible macromechanical properties of such media via the modeling of seismic velocities in random layered structures 15, 21. S9 can be explained by a large layered intrusion complex that is dominated by horizontally oriented sills. Petrogenesis of the toba tuffs, sumatra, indonesia. A relatively homogeneous twopyroxene dacite was erupted during the first phase of activity. The radial anisotropy within the middle crust below the toba caldera fig. These new determinations, in conjunction with previous ages for the two oldest tuffs at toba, establish the chronology of four eruptive events from the toba caldera complex over the past 1. Pdf magma reservoir dynamics at toba caldera, indonesia. Distribution of magma beneath the toba caldera complex, north.
Schematic interpretation of the velocity structure for the toba caldera complex superimposed on the distribution of. This activity culminated at 74 ka with the fourth eruption, which produced 2800 km 3 of magma and formed the 100 km. Magma reservoir dynamics at toba caldera, indonesia, recorded by oxygen isotope zoning in quartz. Petrogenesis of the toba tuffs, sumatra, indonesia journal of. It is based upon the identification, distribution, geochemistry, and. Magmas are complex, multicomponent, multiphase mixtures. Visitors to yellowstone are given a map showing the outline of the most recent caldera, and if they go to the right vantage point, its possible to see that the heart of the park is remarkably. Eruptive history of earths largest quaternary caldera toba, indonesia clarified pdf. The yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to. Pdf distribution of magma beneath the toba caldera complex. The model presented here for the formation and evolution of the toba caldera complex, utilizes the contributions of many researchers who have sought to explain the origin of the kesselbruch basin generated by collapse along arcuate faults for the past 117 years.
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