Skip to main content
  • Submit
  • About
    • Editorial Board
    • PNAS Staff
    • FAQ
    • Accessibility Statement
    • Rights and Permissions
    • Site Map
  • Contact
  • Journal Club
  • Subscribe
    • Subscription Rates
    • Subscriptions FAQ
    • Open Access
    • Recommend PNAS to Your Librarian
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Main menu

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Current
    • Special Feature Articles - Most Recent
    • Special Features
    • Colloquia
    • Collected Articles
    • PNAS Classics
    • List of Issues
  • Front Matter
  • News
    • For the Press
    • This Week In PNAS
    • PNAS in the News
  • Podcasts
  • Authors
    • Information for Authors
    • Editorial and Journal Policies
    • Submission Procedures
    • Fees and Licenses
  • Submit
  • About
    • Editorial Board
    • PNAS Staff
    • FAQ
    • Accessibility Statement
    • Rights and Permissions
    • Site Map
  • Contact
  • Journal Club
  • Subscribe
    • Subscription Rates
    • Subscriptions FAQ
    • Open Access
    • Recommend PNAS to Your Librarian

User menu

  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Home
Home

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Current
    • Special Feature Articles - Most Recent
    • Special Features
    • Colloquia
    • Collected Articles
    • PNAS Classics
    • List of Issues
  • Front Matter
  • News
    • For the Press
    • This Week In PNAS
    • PNAS in the News
  • Podcasts
  • Authors
    • Information for Authors
    • Editorial and Journal Policies
    • Submission Procedures
    • Fees and Licenses

New Research In

Physical Sciences

Featured Portals

  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Sustainability Science

Articles by Topic

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Applied Physical Sciences
  • Astronomy
  • Computer Sciences
  • Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics

Social Sciences

Featured Portals

  • Anthropology
  • Sustainability Science

Articles by Topic

  • Economic Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Political Sciences
  • Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Biological Sciences

Featured Portals

  • Sustainability Science

Articles by Topic

  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Anthropology
  • Applied Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry
  • Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Evolution
  • Genetics
  • Immunology and Inflammation
  • Medical Sciences
  • Microbiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Population Biology
  • Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
  • Sustainability Science
  • Systems Biology
Research Article

Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka

Christine S. Lane, Ben T. Chorn, and Thomas C. Johnson
PNAS May 14, 2013 110 (20) 8025-8029; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301474110
Christine S. Lane
aResearch Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; and
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: Christine.Lane@rlaha.ox.ac.uk
Ben T. Chorn
bLarge Lakes Observatory and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Thomas C. Johnson
bLarge Lakes Observatory and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  1. Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved March 15, 2013 (received for review January 23, 2013)

This article has a Letter. Please see:

  • Toba supereruption: Age and impact on East African ecosystems - June 21, 2013

See related content:

  • Subdecadal climate record of the Toba eruption
    - Jun 21, 2013
  • Article
  • Figures & SI
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Online Impact

 

Article Information

vol. 110 no. 20 8025-8029
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301474110
PubMed: 
23630269

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue May 14, 2013.
  • Published first April 29, 2013.

Article Versions

  • Previous version (April 29, 2013 - 11:35).
  • You are viewing the most recent version of this article.

Author Information

  1. Christine S. Lanea,1,
  2. Ben T. Chornb, and
  3. Thomas C. Johnsonb
  1. aResearch Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; and
  2. bLarge Lakes Observatory and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812
  1. Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved March 15, 2013 (received for review January 23, 2013)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Christine.Lane{at}rlaha.ox.ac.uk.
  • Author contributions: T.C.J. conceived the project; C.S.L. and T.C.J. designed the analytical procedure; C.S.L. and B.T.C. performed research; and C.S.L., B.T.C., and T.C.J. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1301474110/-/DCSupplemental.

Cited By...

  • 82 Citations
  • 90 Citations
  • Google Scholar

This article has been cited by the following articles in journals that are participating in Crossref Cited-by Linking.

  • Rethinking the dispersal ofHomo sapiensout of Africa
    Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia, Geoff Bailey, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Ash Parton, Laine Clark-Balzan, Richard P. Jennings, Laura Lewis, James Blinkhorn, Nick A. Drake, Paul S. Breeze, Robyn H. Inglis, Maud H. Devès, Matthew Meredith-Williams, Nicole Boivin, Mark G. Thomas, Aylwyn Scally
    Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 2015 24 4
  • On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives
    Christopher J. Bae, Katerina Douka, Michael D. Petraglia
    Science 2017 358 6368
  • Transatlantic distribution of the Alaskan White River Ash
    Britta J.L. Jensen, Sean Pyne-O’Donnell, Gill Plunkett, Duane G. Froese, Paul D.M. Hughes, Michael Sigl, Joseph R. McConnell, Matthew J. Amesbury, Paul G. Blackwell, Christel van den Bogaard, Caitlin E. Buck, Dan J. Charman, John J. Clague, Valerie A. Hall, Johannes Koch, Helen Mackay, Gunnar Mallon, Lynsey McColl, Jonathan R. Pilcher
    Geology 2014 42 10
  • Cryptotephras: the revolution in correlation and precision dating
    SIWAN M. DAVIES
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2015 30 2
  • The major and trace element glass compositions of the productive Mediterranean volcanic sources: tools for correlating distal tephra layers in and around Europe
    Emma L. Tomlinson, Victoria C. Smith, Paul G. Albert, Erkan Aydar, Lucia Civetta, Raffaello Cioni, Evren Çubukçu, Ralf Gertisser, Roberto Isaia, Martin A. Menzies, Giovanni Orsi, Mauro Rosi, Giovanni Zanchetta
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2015 118
  • Cryptotephra as a dating and correlation tool in archaeology
    C.S. Lane, V.L. Cullen, D. White, C.W.F. Bramham-Law, V.C. Smith
    Journal of Archaeological Science 2014 42
  • Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores
    Sarah J. Davies, Henry F. Lamb, Stephen J. Roberts
    2015 17
  • A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration
    Jessica E. Tierney, Peter B. deMenocal, Paul D. Zander
    Geology 2017 45 11
  • A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years
    T. C. Johnson, J. P. Werne, E. T. Brown, A. Abbott, M. Berke, B. A. Steinman, J. Halbur, S. Contreras, S. Grosshuesch, A. Deino, C. A. Scholz, R. P. Lyons, S. Schouten, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
    Nature 2016 537 7619
  • Correlating tephras and cryptotephras using glass compositional analyses and numerical and statistical methods: Review and evaluation
    David J. Lowe, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Murray A. Jorgensen, Stephen C. Kuehn, Christian A. Tryon, Chris L. Hayward
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2017 175
  • The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption
    Antonio Costa, Victoria C. Smith, Giovanni Macedonio, Naomi E. Matthews
    Frontiers in Earth Science 2014 2
  • Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago
    Eugene I. Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews, Curtis W. Marean
    Nature 2018 555 7697
  • A mid to late Holocene cryptotephra framework from eastern North America
    Helen Mackay, Paul D.M. Hughes, Britta J.L. Jensen, Pete G. Langdon, Sean D.F. Pyne-O'Donnell, Gill Plunkett, Duane G. Froese, Sarah Coulter, James E. Gardner
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2016 132
  • Anticipating future Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) 7 eruptions and their chilling impacts
    Chris Newhall, Stephen Self, Alan Robock
    Geosphere 2018 14 2
  • Underestimated risks of recurrent long-range ash dispersal from northern Pacific Arc volcanoes
    A. J. Bourne, P. M. Abbott, P. G. Albert, E. Cook, N. J. G. Pearce, V. Ponomareva, A. Svensson, S. M. Davies
    Scientific Reports 2016 6 1
  • Tephra without Borders: Far-Reaching Clues into Past Explosive Eruptions
    Vera Ponomareva, Maxim Portnyagin, Siwan M. Davies
    Frontiers in Earth Science 2015 3
  • Tephrochronology of the Toba tuffs: four primary glass populations define the 75‐ka Youngest Toba Tuff, northern Sumatra, Indonesia
    J. A. WESTGATE, N. J. G. PEARCE, W. T. PERKINS, S. J. PREECE, C. A. CHESNER, R. F. MUHAMMAD
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2013 28 8
  • New evidence for the presence of Changbaishan Millennium eruption ash in the Longgang volcanic field, Northeast China
    Chunqing Sun, Haitao You, Huaiyu He, Lei Zhang, Jinliang Gao, Wenfeng Guo, Shuangshuang Chen, Qian Mao, Qiang Liu, Guoqiang Chu, Jiaqi Liu
    Gondwana Research 2015 28 1
  • Ultra-distal Kamchatkan ash on Arctic Svalbard: Towards hemispheric cryptotephra correlation
    Willem G.M. van der Bilt, Christine S. Lane, Jostein Bakke
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2017 164
  • Resilience to global food supply catastrophes
    Seth D. Baum, David C. Denkenberger, Joshua M. Pearce, Alan Robock, Richelle Winkler
    Environment Systems and Decisions 2015 35 2
  • Advancing tephrochronology as a global dating tool: Applications in volcanology, archaeology, and palaeoclimatic research
    C.S. Lane, D.J. Lowe, S.P.E. Blockley, T. Suzuki, V.C. Smith
    Quaternary Geochronology 2017 40
  • Distal tephrochronology in volcanic regions: Challenges and insights from Kamchatkan lake sediments
    Gill Plunkett, Sarah E. Coulter, Vera V. Ponomareva, Maarten Blaauw, Andrea Klimaschewski, Dan Hammarlund
    Global and Planetary Change 2015 134
  • Individual glass shard trace element analyses confirm that all known Toba tephra reported from India is from thec. 75-ka Youngest Toba eruption
    NICHOLAS J. G. PEARCE, JOHN A. WESTGATE, EMMA GATTI, JINNAPPA N. PATTAN, GOPAL PARTHIBAN, HEMA ACHYUTHAN
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2014 29 8
  • Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ∼74 ka Toba supereruption
    Chad L. Yost, Lily J. Jackson, Jeffery R. Stone, Andrew S. Cohen
    Journal of Human Evolution 2018 116
  • The Menengai Tuff: A 36 ka widespread tephra and its chronological relevance to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Africa
    Nick Blegen, Francis H. Brown, Brian R. Jicha, Katie M. Binetti, J. Tyler Faith, Joseph V. Ferraro, Patrick N. Gathogo, Jonathan L. Richardson, Christian A. Tryon
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2016 152
  • Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa
    David K. Wright, Jessica C. Thompson, Flora Schilt, Andrew S. Cohen, Jeong-Heon Choi, Julio Mercader, Sheila Nightingale, Christopher E. Miller, Susan M. Mentzer, Dale Walde, Menno Welling, Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu
    Journal of Archaeological Science 2017 77
  • Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi
    David K. Wright, Jessica Thompson, Alex Mackay, Menno Welling, Steven L. Forman, Gilbert Price, Jian-xin Zhao, Andrew S. Cohen, Oris Malijani, Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu
    Geoarchaeology 2014 29 2
  • Middle to Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate change in subtropical southern East Africa
    Isla S. Castañeda, Thibaut Caley, Lydie Dupont, Jung-Hyun Kim, Bruno Malaizé, Stefan Schouten
    Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2016 450
  • Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism?
    James U.L. Baldini, Richard J. Brown, Jim N. McElwaine
    Scientific Reports 2015 5 1
  • Waxing and waning of forests: Late Quaternary biogeography of southeast Africa
    Sarah J. Ivory, Anne-Marie Lézine, Annie Vincens, Andrew S. Cohen
    Global Change Biology 2018 24 7
  • Africa from MIS 6-2
    Frederick E. Grine
    2016
  • Middle Stone Age Technology and Cultural Evolution at Magubike Rockshelter, Southern Tanzania
    J. Jeffrey Werner, Pamela R. Willoughby
    African Archaeological Review 2017 34 2
  • Evaluating the link between the sulfur-rich Laacher See volcanic eruption and the Younger Dryas climate anomaly
    James U. L. Baldini, Richard J. Brown, Natasha Mawdsley
    Climate of the Past 2018 14 7
  • Volcanic ash layers in Lake El'gygytgyn: eight new regionally significant chronostratigraphic markers for western Beringia
    C. van den Bogaard, B. J. L. Jensen, N. J. G. Pearce, D. G. Froese, M. V. Portnyagin, V. V. Ponomareva, V. Wennrich
    Climate of the Past 2014 10 3
  • West Coast volcanic ashes provide a new continental-scale Lateglacial isochron
    Sean D.F. Pyne-O'Donnell, Les C. Cwynar, Britta J.L. Jensen, Jessie H. Vincent, Stephen C. Kuehn, Ray Spear, Duane G. Froese
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2016 142
  • The transport of Icelandic volcanic ash: Insights from northern European cryptotephra records
    E. J. Watson, G. T. Swindles, J. A. Stevenson, I. Savov, I. T. Lawson
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 2016 121 10
  • Toba supereruption: Age and impact on East African ecosystems
    R. G. Roberts, M. Storey, M. Haslam
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 110 33
  • Discovery of Youngest Toba Tuff localities in the Sagileru Valley, south India, in association with Palaeolithic industries
    James Blinkhorn, Victoria C. Smith, Hema Achyuthan, Ceri Shipton, Sacha C. Jones, Peter D. Ditchfield, Michael D. Petraglia
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2014 105
  • Marine tephrochronology: a personal perspective
    David J. Lowe
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2014 398 1
  • Seismic perspectives from the western U.S. on magma reservoirs underlying large silicic calderas
    Brandon Schmandt, Chengxin Jiang, Jamie Farrell
    Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2019 384
  • Africa from MIS 6-2
    Nicholas Taylor
    2016
  • First discovery of Holocene cryptotephra in Amazonia
    Elizabeth J. Watson, Graeme T. Swindles, Ivan P. Savov, Karen L. Bacon
    Scientific Reports 2015 5 1
  • Human phylogeography and diversity
    Alexander H. Harcourt
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 113 29
  • The first tephra evidence for a Late Glacial explosive volcanic eruption in the Arxan-Chaihe volcanic field (ACVF), northeast China
    Chunqing Sun, Qiang Liu, Jing Wu, Károly Németh, Luo Wang, Yongwei Zhao, Guoqiang Chu, Jiaqi Liu
    Quaternary Geochronology 2017 40
  • Clinopyroxene and Fe-Ti oxides for correlating the ash from Changbaishan Millennium eruption
    ChunQing Sun, JiaQi Liu, HaiTao You, GuoQiang Chu
    Science China Earth Sciences 2016 59 7
  • Geo-cultural Time: Advancing Human Societal Complexity Within Worldwide Constraint Bottlenecks—A Chronological/Helical Approach to Understanding Human–Planetary Interactions
    Joel D. Gunn, John W. Day, William J. Folan, Matthew Moerschbaecher
    BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality 2019 4 3
  • Multimethod Approach to the Study of Recent Volcanic Ashes from Tengger Volcanic Complex, Eastern Java, Indonesia
    Nono Agus Santoso, Satria Bijaksana, Kazuto Kodama, Djoko Santoso, Darharta Dahrin
    Geosciences 2017 7 3
  • YTT ash from Quaternary sediments of Kapileshwar area, Purna alluvial basin, Central India
    Ashok K. Srivastava, Ajab Singh
    Quaternary International 2019 500
  • Distinction between the Youngest Toba Tuff and Oldest Toba Tuff from northern Sumatra based on the area density of spontaneous fission tracks in their glass shards
    John A. Westgate, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Emma Gatti, Hema Achyuthan
    Quaternary Research 2014 82 2
  • Ecology of Meromictic Lakes
    Martin Schultze, Bertram Boehrer, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Sergei Katsev, Erik T. Brown
    2017 228
  • Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods
    David J. Lowe, Brent Alloway
    2015
  • Human Evolution beyond Biology and Culture
    Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
    2018
  • Patagonian ash on sub-Antarctic South Georgia: expanding the tephrostratigraphy of southern South America into the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
    Lea Toska Oppedal, Willem G. M. van der Bilt, Nicholas L. Balascio, Jostein Bakke
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2018 33 5
  • Volcanic markers for dating the onset of the Anthropocene
    Victoria C. Smith
    Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2014 395 1
  • 100 Years of Progress in Understanding the Stratosphere and Mesosphere
    Mark P. Baldwin, Thomas Birner, Guy Brasseur, John Burrows, Neal Butchart, Rolando Garcia, Marvin Geller, Lesley Gray, Kevin Hamilton, Nili Harnik, Michaela I. Hegglin, Ulrike Langematz, Alan Robock, Kaoru Sato, Adam A. Scaife
    Meteorological Monographs 2019 59
  • Eastern Mediterranean volcanism during marine isotope stages 9 to 7e (335–235 ka): Insights based on cryptotephra layers at Tenaghi Philippon, Greece
    Polina Vakhrameeva, Sabine Wulf, Andreas Koutsodendris, Rik Tjallingii, William J. Fletcher, Oona Appelt, Thomas Ludwig, Maria Knipping, Mario Trieloff, Jörg Pross
    Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2019 380
  • High-resolution paleoecological records from Lake Malawi show no significant cooling associated with the Mount Toba supereruption at ca. 75 ka
    Lily J. Jackson, Jeffery R. Stone, Andrew S. Cohen, Chad L. Yost
    Geology 2015 43 9
  • Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa
    Patrick Roberts, Mary E. Prendergast, Anneke Janzen, Ceri Shipton, James Blinkhorn, Jana Zech, Alison Crowther, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Mathew Stewart, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2020 537
  • Rapid speleothem δ13C change in southwestern North America coincident with Greenland stadial 20 and the Toba (Indonesia) supereruption
    Victor J. Polyak, Yemane Asmerom, Matthew S. Lachniet
    Geology 2017 45 9
  • Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters
    Stephen Self
    2015
  • Developing a Holocene tephrostratigraphy for northern Japan using the sedimentary record from Lake Kushu, Rebun Island
    Xuan-Yu Chen, Danielle McLean, Simon P.E. Blockley, Pavel E. Tarasov, Yi-Gang Xu, Martin A. Menzies
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2019 215
  • Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion
    Finn A. Viehberg, Janna Just, Jonathan R. Dean, Bernd Wagner, Sven Oliver Franz, Nicole Klasen, Thomas Kleinen, Patrick Ludwig, Asfawossen Asrat, Henry F. Lamb, Melanie J. Leng, Janet Rethemeyer, Antoni E. Milodowski, Martin Claussen, Frank Schäbitz
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2018 202
  • First Holocene cryptotephras in mainland Australia reported from sediments at Lake Keilambete, Victoria, Australia
    Rebecca Elizabeth Smith, Jonathan James Tyler, Jessica Reeves, Simon Blockley, Geraldine Ellen Jacobsen
    Quaternary Geochronology 2017 40
  • Giant caldera in the Arctic Ocean: Evidence of the catastrophic eruptive event
    Alexey Piskarev, Daria Elkina
    Scientific Reports 2017 7 1
  • Nature, Occurrence, and Lithological Setup of Youngest Toba Tuff Volcanic Ash, Purna Alluvial Basin, Central India
    Ashok K. Srivastava, Ajab Singh
    The Journal of Geology 2019 127 6
  • Tephra glass chemistry provides storage and discharge details of five magma reservoirs which fed the 75 ka Youngest Toba Tuff eruption, northern Sumatra
    Nicholas J.G. Pearce, John A. Westgate, Guilherme A.R. Gualda, Emma Gatti, Ros F. Muhammad
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2020 35 1-2
  • ‘I Can Do It’ Becomes ‘We Do It’: Kimberley (Australia) and Still Bay (South Africa) Points Through a Socio-technical Framework Lens
    Anders Högberg, Marlize Lombard
    Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2020 3 4
  • 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell
    Warren D. Sharp, Christian A. Tryon, Elizabeth M. Niespolo, Nick D. Fylstra, Alka Tripathy-Lang, J. Tyler Faith
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2019 219
  • A cryptotephra record from the Lake Victoria sediment core record of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change
    Christine S Lane, Catherine M Martin-Jones, Thomas C Johnson
    The Holocene 2018 28 12
  • Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods
    David J. Lowe, Brent Alloway
    2014
  • Genetic variation of complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)
    Cynthia C. Steiner, Marlys L. Houck, Oliver A. Ryder
    Conservation Genetics 2018 19 2
  • Geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic variations in a deep-sea sediment core from Eastern Indian Ocean: Constraints on dust provenances, paleoclimate and volcanic eruption history in the last 300,000years
    Entao Liu, Xuan-Ce Wang, Jian-xin Zhao, Xuan Wang
    Marine Geology 2015 367
  • Reply to Roberts et al.: A subdecadal record of paleoclimate around the Youngest Toba Tuff in Lake Malawi
    C. S. Lane, B. T. Chorn, T. C. Johnson
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 110 33
  • The Mars imperative: Species survival and inspiring a globalized culture
    Donald C. Barker
    Acta Astronautica 2015 107
  • An upper bound for the background rate of human extinction
    Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, Toby Ord, Michael B. Bonsall
    Scientific Reports 2019 9 1
  • Comparison of lake and land tephra records from the 2015 eruption of Calbuco volcano, Chile
    Keri McNamara, Alison C. Rust, Katharine V. Cashman, Angelo Castruccio, Ana M. Abarzúa
    Bulletin of Volcanology 2019 81 2
  • Holocene tephrostratigraphic framework and monsoon evolution of East Asia: Key tephra beds for synchronising palaeoclimate records
    Xuan-Yu Chen, Simon P.E. Blockley, Yi-Gang Xu, Martin A. Menzies
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2020 242
  • Tephra evidence for the most recent eruption of Laoheishan volcano, Wudalianchi volcanic field, northeast China
    Chunqing Sun, Károly Németh, Tao Zhan, Haitao You, Guoqiang Chu, Jiaqi Liu
    Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2019 383
  • Timing, magnitude and geochemistry of major Southeast Asian volcanic eruptions: identifying tephrochronologic markers
    Caroline Bouvet De Maisonneuve, Olga Bergal‐Kuvikas
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2020 35 1-2
  • WITHDRAWN: Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling
    A.L. Deino, M.J. Sier, D. Garello, B. Keller, J. Kingston, J. Scott, G. Dupont-Nivet, A. Cohen
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2019 532
  • Before the Collapse
    Ugo Bardi
    2020
  • Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling
    Alan L. Deino, Mark J. Sier, Dominique I. Garello, C. Brenhin Keller, John D. Kingston, Jennifer J. Scott, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Andrew S. Cohen
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2019
  • Early Silurian Wuchuan–Sihui–Shaoguan exhalative sedimentary pyrite belt, South China: constraints from zircon dating for K-bentonite of the giant Dajiangping deposit
    Yingying Zhang, Taiyi Luo, Tian Gan, Mingzhong Zhou, Xinqiao Han
    Acta Geochimica 2020
  • Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods
    David J. Lowe, Brent V. Alloway
    2014
  • For Whose Benefit?
    Patrik Lindenfors
    2017
  • Granite Skyscrapers
    David S. Stevenson
    2018
  • Population dynamics during the Acheulean at ~0.8 Ma in East and Southeast Asia: Considering the influence of two geological cataclysms
    Hao Li, Matt G. Lotter, Kathleen Kuman, Lei Lei, Wei Wang
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2021 562
  • The Importance of Public Education and Interpretation in the Conservation of Toba Caldera Geoheritage
    Said Muzambiq, Hibnul Walid, Tunggul Hermansyah Ganie, Hary Hermawan
    Geoheritage 2021 13 1
  • The Role of the SO Radiative Effect in Sustaining the Volcanic Winter and Soothing the Toba Impact on Climate
    Sergey Osipov, Georgiy Stenchikov, Kostas Tsigaridis, Allegra N. LeGrande, Susanne E. Bauer
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2020 125 2
  • The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans
    Elizabeth D. Swanner, Nicholas Lambrecht, Chad Wittkop, Chris Harding, Sergei Katsev, Joshua Torgeson, Simon W. Poulton
    Earth-Science Reviews 2020 211

Article usage

Article usage: April 2013 to January 2021

AbstractFullPdf
Apr 201314890111
May 2013694563382
Jun 20137801865
Jul 2013324624
Aug 20132941140
Sep 20132371449
Oct 2013489663
Nov 20132413281
Dec 2013175874
Total 201310974158889
Jan 201427213106
Feb 201427028146
Mar 201424937123
Apr 201420437113
May 20141522480
Jun 201494538
Jul 20141283565
Aug 20141613549
Sep 20141853635
Oct 20142115865
Nov 20143537265
Dec 20141883083
Total 20142467410968
Jan 20152032554
Feb 20151653642
Mar 20152183872
Apr 20151984298
May 20151722260
Jun 20151631734
Jul 20152063231
Aug 2015801132
Sep 20151241433
Oct 20151943083
Nov 20151682285
Dec 20151591063
Total 20152050299687
Jan 20161353364
Feb 20162752345
Mar 20161774197
Apr 20161664379
May 20161922772
Jun 20161082361
Jul 20161051856
Aug 20161521148
Sep 201621817117
Oct 201627314118
Nov 201624833126
Dec 201618621133
Total 201622353041016
Jan 201720415118
Feb 201734596173
Mar 201727172166
Apr 201722060136
May 20171765872
Jun 20171473241
Jul 20171341470
Aug 20171885283
Sep 201714247102
Oct 20172367085
Nov 20171483796
Dec 20171213386
Total 201723325861228
Jan 20181662872
Feb 2018407185196
Mar 20181465232178
Apr 201830411173
May 20183559987
Jun 201834316082
Jul 201830011549
Aug 20182047845
Sep 20181785631
Oct 2018949948
Nov 2018228398124
Dec 20189015161
Total 2018413417121046
Jan 20196914162
Feb 2019989574
Mar 201910913498
Apr 2019949652
May 201924613268
Jun 2019969536
Jul 20198510137
Aug 2019818527
Sep 2019448734
Oct 2019569638
Nov 201911119349
Dec 20198511735
Total 201911741372610
Jan 202012611436
Feb 202022534288
Mar 20209640453
Apr 202011321651
May 20209515951
Jun 2020557826
Jul 2020307416
Aug 20206510519
Sep 20204420225
Oct 20206113041
Nov 20206014243
Dec 20206216725
Total 202010322133474
Jan 20214912326
Total 20214912326
Total2644770976944
PreviousNext
Back to top
Article Alerts
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on PNAS.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka
(Your Name) has sent you a message from PNAS
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the PNAS web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Citation Tools
Ash from Toba shows no volcanic winter in Africa
Christine S. Lane, Ben T. Chorn, Thomas C. Johnson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2013, 110 (20) 8025-8029; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301474110

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Request Permissions
Share
Ash from Toba shows no volcanic winter in Africa
Christine S. Lane, Ben T. Chorn, Thomas C. Johnson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2013, 110 (20) 8025-8029; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301474110
Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Google logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Mendeley logo Mendeley
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 110 (20)
Table of Contents

Submit

Sign up for Article Alerts

Article Classifications

  • Physical Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Biological Sciences
  • Anthropology

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Materials and Methods
    • Acknowledgments
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • Figures & SI
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

You May Also be Interested in

Abstract depiction of a guitar and musical note
Science & Culture: At the nexus of music and medicine, some see disease treatments
Although the evidence is still limited, a growing body of research suggests music may have beneficial effects for diseases such as Parkinson’s.
Image credit: Shutterstock/agsandrew.
Large piece of gold
News Feature: Tracing gold's cosmic origins
Astronomers thought they’d finally figured out where gold and other heavy elements in the universe came from. In light of recent results, they’re not so sure.
Image credit: Science Source/Tom McHugh.
Dancers in red dresses
Journal Club: Friends appear to share patterns of brain activity
Researchers are still trying to understand what causes this strong correlation between neural and social networks.
Image credit: Shutterstock/Yeongsik Im.
Yellow emoticons
Learning the language of facial expressions
Aleix Martinez explains why facial expressions often are not accurate indicators of emotion.
Listen
Past PodcastsSubscribe
Goats standing in a pin
Transplantation of sperm-producing stem cells
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can improve the effectiveness of spermatogonial stem cell transplantation in mice and livestock, a study finds.
Image credit: Jon M. Oatley.

Similar Articles

Site Logo
Powered by HighWire
  • Submit Manuscript
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • RSS Feeds
  • Email Alerts

Articles

  • Current Issue
  • Special Feature Articles – Most Recent
  • List of Issues

PNAS Portals

  • Anthropology
  • Chemistry
  • Classics
  • Front Matter
  • Physics
  • Sustainability Science
  • Teaching Resources

Information

  • Authors
  • Editorial Board
  • Reviewers
  • Librarians
  • Press
  • Site Map
  • PNAS Updates

Feedback    Privacy/Legal

Copyright © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. Online ISSN 1091-6490