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Volcanoes in human history : the far-reaching effects of major eruptions / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton., New .Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2002.Description: xvii, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691050813
  • 0691118388 (pbk.)
DDC classification:
  • 363.34/95 21
  • 551.21 21
  • 551.2109 21
LOC classification:
  • QE522 .Z435 2002
Contents:
Foreword / Robert D. Ballard -- 1. Volcanism: Origins and Consequences -- Sidebar: Dating of Volcanic Events -- 2. The Hawaiian Islands and the Legacy of Pele the Fire Goddess -- 3. The Bronze Age Eruption of Thera: Destroyer of Atlantis and Minoan Crete? -- 4. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E.: Cultural Reverberations through the Ages -- 5. Iceland: Coming Apart at the Seams -- 6. The Eruption of Tambora in 1815 and "the Year without a Summer" -- Sidebar: Mount Toba: Bigger Than Tambora -- 7. Krakatau, 1883: Devastation, Death, and Ecologic Revival -- Sidebar: The Ghosts of Merapi -- 8. The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelee: A Geological Catastrophe with Political Overtones -- Sidebar: Mount Pelee and the Panama Canal -- 9. Tristan da Cunha in 1961: Exile to the Twentieth Century -- 10. Mount St. Helens in 1980: Catastrophe in the Cascades.
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Includes Index.

Bibliography: p. 261-280.

Foreword / Robert D. Ballard -- 1. Volcanism: Origins and Consequences -- Sidebar: Dating of Volcanic Events -- 2. The Hawaiian Islands and the Legacy of Pele the Fire Goddess -- 3. The Bronze Age Eruption of Thera: Destroyer of Atlantis and Minoan Crete? -- 4. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E.: Cultural Reverberations through the Ages -- 5. Iceland: Coming Apart at the Seams -- 6. The Eruption of Tambora in 1815 and "the Year without a Summer" -- Sidebar: Mount Toba: Bigger Than Tambora -- 7. Krakatau, 1883: Devastation, Death, and Ecologic Revival -- Sidebar: The Ghosts of Merapi -- 8. The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelee: A Geological Catastrophe with Political Overtones -- Sidebar: Mount Pelee and the Panama Canal -- 9. Tristan da Cunha in 1961: Exile to the Twentieth Century -- 10. Mount St. Helens in 1980: Catastrophe in the Cascades.

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