Growth and thermal maturation of the Toba magma reservoir

• Main Authors: Liu, Ping-Ping, Caricchi, Luca, Chung, Sun-Lin, Li, Xian-Hua, Li, Qiu-Li, Zhou, Mei-Fu, Lai, Yu-Ming, Ghani, Azman A., Sihotang, Theodora, Sheldrake, Tom E., Simpson, Guy
• Format: Article
• Published: Natl Acad Sciences 2021
• Subjects: Q Science (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/34446/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

The Toba volcanic system in Indonesia has produced two of the largest eruptions (>2,000 km(3) dense-rock equivalent DRE] each) on Earth since the Quaternary. U-Pb crystallization ages of zircon span a period of similar to 600 ky before each eruptive event, and in the run-up to each eruption, the...