This satellite image shows smoldering underground fires that took place at Toba in 1997.
A devastating volcanic eruption occurred at the site roughly 73,000 years ago.
Credit: NASA
2 posted on
12/04/2009 3:10:42 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
To: NormsRevenge
Archeologists and anthropologists agree that women and minorities were hardest hit.
3 posted on
12/04/2009 3:10:48 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: NormsRevenge
“released an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere that blanketed the skies and blocked out sunlight for six years.”
Six years??? I rather doubt that.
4 posted on
12/04/2009 3:15:29 PM PST by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: NormsRevenge
So this was before the Flood right? :-)
5 posted on
12/04/2009 3:16:03 PM PST by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: SunkenCiv
Ping
7 posted on
12/04/2009 3:16:09 PM PST by
colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: NormsRevenge
If Yellowstone blows...we are all toast!
9 posted on
12/04/2009 3:22:11 PM PST by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: NormsRevenge
released an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere that blanketed the skies and blocked out sunlight for six years.
Is a cubic km of ash figured as ash that has settled out of the atmosphere or atmosphere containing ash at an arbitrary percentage?
15 posted on
12/04/2009 3:26:48 PM PST by
aruanan
To: NormsRevenge
18 posted on
12/04/2009 3:36:47 PM PST by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: NormsRevenge
The lack of genetic diversity among humans alive today suggests that during this time period humans came very close to becoming extinct. Nova suggested it was down to 600 individuals during a program last month.
19 posted on
12/04/2009 3:40:18 PM PST by
EVO X
To: NormsRevenge
This article proves just how helpless man is in controlling climate.
20 posted on
12/04/2009 3:53:03 PM PST by
Circle_Hook
(Rage against the Machine!)
To: NormsRevenge
Now, that’s climate change!
To: NormsRevenge
Throw ALGORE into the volcano to please the Gods.
28 posted on
12/05/2009 6:40:39 AM PST by
bmwcyle
(When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
To: NormsRevenge
29 posted on
12/05/2009 7:06:04 AM PST by
VOA
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