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Bookmark or Share- NOVA | Mystery of the Megavolcano | Why Toba Matters | PBSMystery of the Megavolcano Home | Send Feedback | Image Credits | Support NOVA. © | Created September 2006. Read an interview with NASA climatologist Drew Shindell about lessons past supereruptions...
- Mount Toba: One of the largest eruptions in Earth’s history ... - CNNCNN — About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate.
- Toba catastrophe theory - WikipediaIt is one of the largest known explosive eruptions in the Earth's history. The Toba catastrophe theory is that this event caused a severe global volcanic winter of six to ten years and contributed to a 1,000-year-long cooling episode, resulting in a genetic bottleneck in humans.
- Ancient Humans Weathered the Toba Supervolcano Just FineToba was no ordinary eruption. It spewed thousands of tons of ash into the atmosphere, enough to create a decade-long volcanic winter, leading to massive die-offs of vegetation and the end of...
- How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human EvolutionBecause the hidden history encoded in our DNA pointed to the near-extinction event for Homo sapiens occurring 50,000–100,000 years ago, Toba was the most obvious suspect. A growing body of...
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