Mt. Sumbing, Java (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Mt. Sumbing, Java

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Mt. Sumbing, an arc volcano in Central Java, in 2016. The uplift of volcanic rock in the entire Southeast Asian island arc, starting 15 million years ago, triggered global cooling and eventually ice sheets that covered much of North America and Northern Europe 18,000 years ago, according to UC Berkeley scientists and their colleagues.

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UC Berkeley photo by Yuem Park

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