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Volcanoes in Human History

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer & Donald Theodore Sanders

Language: English

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Aeneid African Plate Aleutian Islands Aleutian Trench Asthenosphere Atlantic Ocean Author Betty Radice Bronze Age Cinder cone Crust (geology) Dike (geology) Disaster Earth Eruption column Eurasian Plate Explosive eruption Fault (geology) Geologist Geology Heimaey Herculaneum History Indonesia Island arc John McPhee Kilauea Lava Lithosphere Magma chamber Mantle plume Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mount Vesuvius Mudflow North America North American Plate Pacific Ocean Pacific Plate Plate tectonics Princeton University Press Pumice Pyroclastic flow Quantity Rift zone Seawater Sediment Stratosphere Subduction Sulfur dioxide Sulfuric acid Sumbawa Sunda Strait Surtsey Therasia Tristan da Cunha Tsunami Types of volcanic eruptions Volcanic arc Volcanic ash Volcanic bomb Volcanic explosivity index Volcanic gas Volcanic rock Volcanism Volcano Volcanologist Volcanology Weather World War II Year Year Without a Summer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Description:

Beginning with the Bronze Age eruption that caused the demise of Minoan Crete, this book shows how volcanism shaped religion in Hawaii, permeated Icelandic mythology and literature, caused widespread population migrations, and spurred scientific discovery. 18 halftones. Illustrations & maps.

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