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050 00 QE522|b.O58 2011
100 1 Oppenheimer, Clive,|eauthor.
245 10 Eruptions that shook the world /|cClive Oppenheimer.
264 1 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c2011.
300 1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages) :|bdigital, PDF
file(s).
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
500 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05
Oct 2015).
505 0 Fire and Brimstone: How Volcanoes Work. Origins of
volcanoes: the mantle ; Magma ; Eruption parameters --
Eruption Styles, Hazards, and Ecosystem Impacts. Eruption
clouds ; Tephra falls ; Pyroclastic currents & caldera
formation ; Lava flows and domes ; Rock avalanches and
mudflows ; Tsunami ; Earthquakes ; Volcanic gas emissions
; Recovery of ecosystems ; Volcanic disasters -- Volcanoes
and Global Climate Change. Pinatubo's global cloud ;
Atmospheric and climatic change ; Recipe for a climate-
forcing eruption -- Forensic Volcanology. Reading the
rocks ; Ice cores ; Tree rings -- Relics, Myths, and
Chronicles. Archaeological perspectives ; Oral traditions
; Crepuscular lights, cannonades, and chronicles ; Volcano
forensics: a case study -- Killer Plumes. Mass extinctions
; More about LIPs ; LIP origins ; LIPs, bolides, and
extinctions: the coincidences ; Kill mechanisms ; Hot LIPs
and cold SLIPs -- Human Origins. The East African Rift
Valley ; The first humans ; The Middle Stone Age and
modern humans -- The Ash-Giant/Sulphur-Dwarf. The eruption
; Sulphur yield of the eruption ; Climate change ; The
human story ; Focus on India -- European Volcanism in
Prehistory. The Campanian eruption and the human
revolution in Palaeolithic Europe ; 'Cultural devolution'
and the Laacher See eruption ; Eruption of Santorini and
the decline of the Minoan civilisation -- The Rise of
Teotihuacán. Popocatépetl ; The Ilopango eruption -- Dark
Ages: Dark Nature? The mystery cloud of 536 CE ; Veils and
whips -- The Haze Famine. The eruption ; Gas emissions and
aerosol veil ; Weather and climate ; The haze famine ;
Long reach of the eruption -- The Last Great Subsistence
Crisis in the Western World. Sumbawa before the disaster ;
The eruption ; Atmospheric and climate impacts ; Human
tragedy ; Global reach of the eruption -- Volcanic
Catastrophe Risk. Three catastrophe scenarios ; Risk
control ; Global warming: fake volcanoes and real
eruptions ; Shaken but not stirred -- Large Eruptions. The
twenty-five largest documented Holocene eruptions.
506 1 Unlimited number of concurrent users.|5UkHlHU
650 0 Volcanism|xEffect of environment on.
650 0 Volcanism|xHistory.
650 0 Volcanology.
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