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  • Highlights: New data reveal for the first time a history of the last ∼33.7 ky of uplift of Samosir. Minimum uplift rates were high (4.9 cm/year) for the first 11.2 ky but diminished after that to <1 cm/year for the last 22.5 ky. Numerical modeling suggests that rebound of remnant magma augmented by deep recharge appears to be the most likely driver for uplift. Detumescence makes a negligible contribution to resurgent uplift. The volume of the resurgent dome is isostatically compensated by magma. Average rates of uplift at Toba are much lower than currently restless calderas indicating a distinction between resurgence and “restlessness”. New data reveal details of the post-caldera history at the Earth’s youngest resurgent supervolcano, Toba caldera in Sumatra. Resurgence after the caldera-forming ∼74 ka Youngest Toba Tuff eruption uplifted the caldera floor as a resurgent dome, Samosir Island, capped with 100m of lake sediments. ¹⁴C age data from the uppermost datable sediments reveal that Samosir Island was submerged beneath lake level (∼900 m a.s.l) at 33 ka. Since then, Samosir experienced 700 m of uplift as a tilted block dipping to the west. ¹⁴C ages and elevations of sediment along a transect of Samosir reveal that minimum uplift rates were ∼4.9 cm/year from ∼33.7 to 22.5 ka, but diminished to ∼0.7 cm/year after 22.5 ka. Thermo-mechanical models informed by these rates reveal that detumescence does not produce the uplift nor the uplift rates estimated for Samosir. However, models calculating the effect of volume change of the magma reservoir within a temperature-dependent viscoelastic host rock reveal that a single pulse of ∼475 km³ of magma produces a better fit to the uplift data than a constant flux. The cause of resurgent uplift of the caldera floor is rebound of remnant magma as the system re-established magmastatic and isostatic equilibrium after the caldera collapse. Previous assertions that the caldera floor was apparently at 400 m a.s.l or lower requires that uplift must have initiated between sometime between 33.7 and 74 ka at a minimum average uplift rate of ∼1.1 cm/year. The change in uplift rate from pre-33.7 ka to immediately post-33.7 ka suggests a role for deep recharge augmenting rebound. Average minimum rates of resurgent uplift at Toba are at least an order of magnitude slower than net rates of “restlessness” at currently active calderas. This connotes a distinction between resurgence and “restlessness” controlled by different processes, scales of process, and controlling variables.
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  • Keywords: Magmastatic equilibrium, Resurgence, Lake sediments, Magmatic intrusion, Numerical modeling, Toba caldera, Carbon-14 dating, Remnant magma
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  • De Silva, S. L., Mucek, A. E., Gregg, P. M., & Pratomo, I. (2015). Resurgent Toba–field, chronologic, and model constraints on time scales and mechanisms of resurgence at large calderas. Frontiers in Earth Science, 3, 25. doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00025
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  • Generous sabbatical support and research funds to de Silva from the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) are gratefully acknowledged. Mucek was supported by a US National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship and a Geological Society of America Research Grant. Thermomechanical modeling of caldera systems was developed while Gregg was supported by a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and the Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (CEOAS) postdoctoral program. Publication of this article in an open access journal was funded by the Oregon State University Libraries & Press Open Access Fund.
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