Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fire and brimstone : how volcanoes work. Origins of volcanoes : the mantle ; Magma ; Eruption parameters -- Eruption styles, hazards, and e cosystem impacts. Eruption clouds ; Tephra falls ; Pyroclastic currents & caldera formation ; Lava flows and domes ; Rock avalanches and mudfl ows ; Tsunami ; Earthquakes ; Volcanic gas emissions ; Recovery of ecos ystems ; Volcanic disasters -- Volcanoes and global climate change. Pin atubo's global cloud ; Atmospheric and climatic change ; Recipe for a c limate-forcing eruption -- Forensic volcanology. Reading the rocks ; Ic e cores ; Tree rings -- Relics, myths, and chronicles. Archaeological p erspectives ; Oral traditions ; Crepuscular lights, cannonades, and chr onicles ; Volcano forensics : a case study -- Killer plumes. Mass extin ctions ; More about LIPs ; LIP origins ; LIPs, bolides, and extinctions : the coincidences ; Kill mechanisms ; Hot LIPs and cold SLIPs -- Huma n origins. The East African Rift Valley ; The first humans ; The Middle Stone Age and modern humans -- The ash-giant/sulphur-dwarf. The erupti on ; Sulphur yield of the eruption ; Climate change ; The human story ; Focus on India -- European volcanism in prehistory. The Campanian erup tion and the human revolution in Palaeolithic Europe ; 'Cultural devolu tion' and the Laacher See eruption ; Eruption of Santorini and the decl ine of the Minoan civilisation -- The rise of Teotihuacán. Popocatépe tl ; The Ilopango eruption -- Dark Ages : dark nature? The mystery clou d of 536 CD ; Veils and whips -- The haze famine. The eruption ; Gas em issions and aerosol veil ; Weather and climate ; The haze famine ; Long reach of the eruption -- The last great subsistence crisis in the West ern world. Sumbawa before the disaster ; The eruption ; Atmospheric and climate impacts ; Human tragedy ; Global reach of the eruption -- Volc anic catastrophe risk. Three catastrophe scenarios ; Risk control ; Glo bal warming : fake volcanoes and rea

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