**Where is Lake Toba? Things I missed in the NOVA program

Just finished half watching a NOVA program while plinking away on a forum or blog. I got some of the information, but sure did miss the location of Lake Toba in the program. If there is one thing about some PBS programs, it is that the location of things discussed is assumed to be known by all viewers or is given about a 10th of a second on screen as it is talked over by something else.

Well, the program covering a "Super Volcano" that errupted about 75,000 years ago was made interesting by mixing in a kind of detective story in search of the source of high sulfuric acid levels in ancient ice,,etc. John Westgate and other scientists in the mix.

Here is a link to NOVA---NOVA--Mystery of the MegaVolcano

And, a few more links adding what I missed in the NOVA story--
Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia

Toba Catastrophe Theory. Answers and Wikipedia

I wonder if there was a "Pat Robertson" or "Jerry Falwell" around to expain to the soon to die why some god was destroying them. Was that god trying to explain the intricacy of "human life" values just as the anti-women's-choice groups are busily trying to do with HB 1215 in the South Dakota?

Nova indicated that four "super volcano sites" are known: Lake Toba, Long Valley in Western US, Topo? New Zealand, and Yellowstone.

**Stay tuned even if you and we will most likely be lucky enough to escape the consequences of any "super volcanoes"---Doug Wiken

Comments

[David Newquist]

It's in Indonesia. Prof. Craig Chesner of Eastern Illinois University University is the man who eventually located the super volcano in the middle of Lake Toba. The Sherlock Holmes in this case is at the University of Toronto. Makes me long for the company of secular humanists and heathen scientists again.

[Bryan]

A bit of information and an image.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17545