Gabriela Bunga Naen

Gabriela Bunga Naen is PhD student at Volcanology and Petrology Laboratory, Kyushu University, Japan. Her current work focuses on the detailed characteristics of the Youngest Toba Tuff deposit to reveal the dynamic processes in the volcanic conduit and chamber related to the YTT eruption (74 ka).

Ask us (almost) anything: how is tuff formed?

Gabriela Bunga Naen, Franziska Keller and Mike Jollands August 25, 2020

Tarun Goswami, an archaeologist from India, asks: How is a tuff formed? and more specifically… Why do some deposits have more ash than others? We are paraphrasing – the questions are specifically about the tuffs formed in the Toba supereruption. So… you asked, we answer! First of all, modern definitions generally describe a tuff as …[Read More]