Seventy-four thousand years ago, the Earth changed in a flash.The Toba volcano supereruption, an explosive event in what is now Indonesia, blanketed the skies in ash, cooled the climate, and brought ...
Prologue : A very bad day on Planet Earth -- 1. Mystery of the missing megavolcano. Serendipity ; Frozen in the ice ; Data in Davy Jones's locker ; Blowing the case wide open ; Mystery solved -- 2.
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The eruption of the Toba volcano was the largest volcanic eruption in the past 2 million years, but its impacts on climate and human evolution have been unclear. Resolving this debate is important for ...
The largest volcanic eruption in human history resulted in a few years of warm weather, according to an analysis of ancient sediments, and not a severe volcanic winter as some researchers had thought.
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