Dispersal of ash in the great Toba eruption, 75 ka

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1987

Abstract

One of Earth's largest known eruptions, the Toba eruption of 75 ka, erupted a minimum of 2800 km3 of magma, of which at least 800 km3 was deposited as ash fall. This ash may be entirely of coignimbrite origin and dispersed widely because of high drag coefficients on the predominantly bubble-wall shards. Shards of this shape are broken from the walls of spherical vesicles, which formed in high abundance in isotropic strain shadows near phenocrysts in this crystal-rich magma.

Publisher's Statement

© 1987 Geological Society of America. Publisher's version of record: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15%3C913:DOAITG%3E2.0.CO;2

Publication Title

Geology

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