The feeder system of the Toba supervolcano from the slab to the shallow reservoir

The Toba Caldera is the site of the largest Pleistocene eruption at 74,000 years ago, yet the magmatic plumbing system remains poorly understood. Here, Koulakov et al. present a new seismic tomography model highlighting a complex multilevel plumbing magmatic system under Toba.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ivan Koulakov, Ekaterina Kasatkina, Nikolai M. Shapiro, Claude Jaupart, Alexander Vasilevsky, Sami El Khrepy, Nassir Al-Arifi, Sergey Smirnov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12228
Description
Summary:The Toba Caldera is the site of the largest Pleistocene eruption at 74,000 years ago, yet the magmatic plumbing system remains poorly understood. Here, Koulakov et al. present a new seismic tomography model highlighting a complex multilevel plumbing magmatic system under Toba.
ISSN:2041-1723