Toba supervolcano

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:volcanic_activity
gptkbp:ashFall gptkb:Arabian_Sea
gptkb:Indian_Ocean
gptkb:South_Asia
gptkb:South_China_Sea
gptkb:Bay_of_Bengal
gptkbp:ashFoundIn gptkb:Greenland_ice_cores
Indian subcontinent
East Africa
gptkbp:ashLayerName gptkb:Youngest_Toba_Tuff
gptkbp:ashThicknessInIndia up to 15 cm
gptkbp:ashThicknessInLakeMalawi trace amounts
gptkbp:ashThicknessInMalaysia up to 9 cm
gptkbp:ashThicknessInSouthChinaSea up to 3 cm
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Toba_catastrophe_theory
gptkbp:calderaDiameter about 100 kilometers
gptkbp:calderaLength about 30 kilometers
gptkbp:calderaName gptkb:Lake_Toba
gptkbp:country gptkb:Indonesia
gptkbp:effect global volcanic winter
human population bottleneck
gptkbp:eruptionVEI 8
gptkbp:eruptionVolume about 2,800 cubic kilometers
gptkbp:eruptionYear ~74,000 BP
gptkbp:featureType gptkb:volcanic_activity
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Toba supervolcano
gptkbp:impactOnBiodiversity possible mass die-off
gptkbp:impactOnClimate global cooling
gptkbp:islandInCaldera gptkb:Samosir_Island
gptkbp:lake gptkb:Lake_Toba
about 505 meters
about 1,130 square kilometers
gptkbp:lakeFormedBy caldera collapse
gptkbp:largestEruptionKnown gptkb:Quaternary_period
gptkbp:lastEruption about 74,000 years ago
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Indonesia
gptkb:Sumatra
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Lake_Toba
gptkbp:notableFor largest volcanic eruption in last 2 million years
gptkbp:region gptkb:North_Sumatra
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Ring_of_Fire
gptkbp:status dormant
gptkbp:studiedBy volcanologists
gptkbp:volcanicArcBelt gptkb:Sunda_Arc
gptkbp:volcanicExplosivityIndex 8
gptkbp:volcanoType caldera-forming eruption
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Toba_Caldera_(tentative)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7