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

Ivan Koulakov; Ekaterina Kasatkina; Nikolai M. Shapiro; Claude Jaupart; Alexander Vasilevsky; Sami El Khrepy; Nassir Al-Arifi; Sergey Smirnov

doi:10.1038/ncomms12228

Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

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

Ivan Koulakov,
Ekaterina Kasatkina,
Nikolai M. Shapiro,
Claude Jaupart,
Alexander Vasilevsky,
Sami El Khrepy,
Nassir Al-Arifi,
Sergey Smirnov

Affiliations

Ivan Koulakov: Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, SB RAS
Ekaterina Kasatkina: Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, SB RAS
Nikolai M. Shapiro: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS (UMR 7154)
Claude Jaupart: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS (UMR 7154)
Alexander Vasilevsky: Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, SB RAS
Sami El Khrepy: King Saud University
Nassir Al-Arifi: King Saud University
Sergey Smirnov: Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12228
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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