Volcanic winter and accelerated glaciation following the Toba super-eruption

1992/09/01 by Michael R. Rampino, Stephen Self · 13 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric sciences #Climate change #Climatology #Explosive eruption #Geography #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Geomorphology #Glacial period #Global cooling #Ice age #Magma #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Oceanography #Paleontology #Physical geography #Sea level #Snow #Volcanic ash #Volcano #Vulcanian eruption

paper · doi:10.1038/359050a0

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Citations

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• K–Ar age of the late Pleistocene eruption of Toba, north Sumatra
• Vostok ice core provides 160,000-year record of atmospheric CO2
• Climate and Smoke: an Appraisal of Nuclear Winter
• Age Dating and the Orbital Theory of the Ice Ages: Development of a High-Resolution 0 to 300,000-Year Chronostratigraphy

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