TY  - GEN
AU  -  Oppenheimer, Clive.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Eruptions that shook the world
PY  - 0000/// c201 1
CY  -  Cambridge, UK,  New York
PB  -  Cambridge University Press
KW  -  Volcanism
KW  -  Effect of environment on
KW  -  History
KW  -  Volcanology
N1  -  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;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2013;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  Mode of a ccess: Intranet
UR  -  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31096
ER  -