Sentences with phrase «toba supervolcano»

74000 years ago the Lake Toba supervolcano in Sumatra ejected 2800 cubic kilometres.

Around 75,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano exploded on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, blasting enormous volumes of gas and ash into the air.

We found that the middle crust below the Toba supervolcano is horizontally layered.»

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The Indonesian supervolcano Toba had one of these eruptions about 73000 years ago, when 2800 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash was ejected into the atmosphere and rained down and covered enormous areas in Indonesia and India.

This potentially puts our species on Sumatra when the island's supervolcano — Toba — erupted about 71,000 years ago.