Donald R Prothero
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Various historic volcanoes, and the ability to survive them. It includes the Toba volcano, from Indonesia.
"The true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano, the largest eruption in the past 28 million years, and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution."--
Some 73,000 years ago the eruption of the Toba supervolcano released the energy of a million tons of explosives; seven hundred cubic miles of magma spewed outward in an explosion,...