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Animation of an analogue experiment showing the origin of a volcanic caldera in box filled with flour Landsat image of Lake Toba, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia (100 km/62 mi long and 30 km/19 mi wide, one of the world's largest calderas). A resurgent dome formed the island of Samosir. Topographic map of Cagar Alam Rawa Danau Caldera in ...
The present-day caldera is composed of overlapping shield volcanoes, cut by at least four partially overlapping calderas, of which the oldest southern caldera was formed about 180,000 years before the present era (BP). The subsequent Skaros caldera was created about 70,000 years BP, and the Cape Riva caldera about 21,000 years BP.
Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, is a Quaternary caldera complex and volcanic plateau spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. It is driven by the Yellowstone hotspot and is largely within Yellowstone National Park .
The Long Valley Caldera was formed by a super-eruption about 760,000 years ago that blasted 140 cubic miles of magma, covering much of east-central California in hot ash that was blown as far away ...
The Yellowstone Caldera formed over 600,000 years ago from the Lava Creek Tuff eruption, which was measured on the Volcanic Explosivity Index as an 8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...
The La Garita Caldera is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada from 40 to 18 million years ago, and was the site of massive eruptions about 28.01 ± 0.04 million years ago, during the Oligocene Epoch.
Between June 6 and 9, 1912, the most spectacular Alaskan eruption in recorded history and the 20th century's largest measured volcanic eruption formed a large summit caldera at Katmai volcano. [3] [4] The eruption happened at a vent about 6 mi (10 km) to the west of Mount Katmai (at the Novarupta Volcano).
It was formed by an eruption 240,000 years ago that produced extensive pyroclastic deposits. Smaller eruptions have occurred in the caldera since, the most recent less than 25,000 years ago. It is one of several large volcanoes in the TaupÅ Volcanic Zone on the North Island of New Zealand.