The major and trace element glass compositions of the productive Mediterranean volcanic sources: tools for correlating distal tephra layers in and around Europe

EL Tomlinson, VC Smith, PG Albert, E Aydar… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The increasing application of cryptotephra studies is leading the identification of new tephra
marker layers the sources of which in many cases may not be known or may be ambiguous …

Reconstructing the environmental context of human origins in Eastern Africa through scientific drilling

AS Cohen, CJ Campisano… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Paleoanthropologists have long speculated about the role of environmental change in
sha** human evolution in Africa. In recent years, drill cores of late Neogene lacustrine …

Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka

CS Lane, BT Chorn, TC Johnson - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 - pnas.org
The most explosive volcanic event of the Quaternary was the eruption of Mt. Toba, Sumatra,
75,000 y ago, which produced voluminous ash deposits found across much of the Indian …

Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption~ 74,000 years ago

C Clarkson, C Harris, B Li, CM Neudorf… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
India is located at a critical geographic crossroads for understanding the dispersal of Homo
sapiens out of Africa and into Asia and Oceania. Here we report evidence for long-term …

Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago

EI Smith, Z Jacobs, R Johnsen, M Ren, EC Fisher… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Approximately 74 thousand years ago (ka), the Toba caldera erupted in Sumatra. Since the
magnitude of this eruption was first established, its effects on climate, environment and …

Astronomically calibrated 40Ar/39Ar age for the Toba supereruption and global synchronization of late Quaternary records

M Storey, RG Roberts, M Saidin - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2012 - pnas.org
The Toba supereruption in Sumatra,∼ 74 thousand years (ka) ago, was the largest
terrestrial volcanic event of the Quaternary. Ash and sulfate aerosols were deposited in both …

A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: forcing of Quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupation of India

DF Mark, M Petraglia, VC Smith, LE Morgan… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
A new high-precision inverse isochron 40 Ar/39 Ar age for the youngest Toba super-eruption
is presented: 75.0±0.9 ka (1 sigma, full external precision, relative to the optimisation model …

The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption

A Costa, VC Smith, G Macedonio… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Super-eruptions, orders of magnitude larger than biggest eruptions experienced in historic
times, have devastated wide areas by pyroclastic flows, covered continent-size areas by ash …

Integrating the Holocene tephrostratigraphy for East Asia using a high-resolution cryptotephra study from Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core), central Japan

D McLean, PG Albert, T Nakagawa, T Suzuki… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tephra (volcanic ash) layers have the potential to synchronise disparate
palaeoenvironmental archives on regional to hemispheric scales. Highly productive arc …

Tephra glass chemistry provides storage and discharge details of five magma reservoirs which fed the 75 ka Youngest Toba Tuff eruption, northern Sumatra

NJG Pearce, JA Westgate, GAR Gualda… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Youngest Toba Tuff contains five distinct glass populations, identified from
Ba, Sr and Y compositions, termed PI (lowest Ba)–PV (highest Ba), representing five …