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"What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oppenheimer, Clive (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Volcanism > Effect of environment on.
Volcanism > History.
Volcanology.
Volcanisme > Effets de l'environnement sur.
Volcanologie.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Mineralogy.
NATURE > Earthquakes & Volcanoes.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Seismology & Volcanism.
Volcanism
Volcanism > Effect of environment on
Volcanology
Eruption
Vulkanismus
Geoarchäologie
Auswirkung
Geschichtsschreibung
Vulkan
Vulkanologie
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Fire and brimstone : how volcanoes work. Origins of volcanoes : the mantle ; Magma ; Eruption parameters
  • 2. 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
  • 3. Volcanoes and global climate change. Pinatubo's global cloud ; Atmospheric and climatic change ; Recipe for a climate-forcing eruption
  • 4. Forensic volcanology. Reading the rocks ; Ice cores ; Tree rings
  • 5. Relics, myths, and chronicles. Archaeological perspectives ; Oral traditions ; Crepuscular lights, cannonades, and chronicles ; Volcano forensics : a case study
  • 6. Killer plumes. Mass extinctions ; More about LIPs ; LIP origins ; LIPs, bolides, and extinctions : the coincidences ; Kill mechanisms ; Hot LIPs and cold SLIPs
  • 7. Human origins. The East African Rift Valley ; The first humans ; The Middle Stone Age and modern humans
  • 8. The ash-giant/sulphur-dwarf. The eruption ; Sulphur yield of the eruption ; Climate change ; The human story ; Focus on India
  • 9. 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
  • 10. The rise of Teotihuacán. Popocatépetl ; The Ilopango eruption
  • 11. Dark Ages : dark nature? The mystery cloud of 536 CD ; Veils and whips
  • 12. The haze famine. The eruption ; Gas emissions and aerosol veil ; Weather and climate ; The haze famine ; Long reach of the eruption
  • 13. 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
  • 14. Volcanic catastrophe risk. Three catastrophe scenarios ; Risk control ; Global warming : fake volcanoes and real eruptions ; Shaken but not stirred
  • Appendix A. Large eruptions.

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