Zeilinga de Boer / Sanders Volcanoes in Human History

The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4285-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Science Library

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer is the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science at Wesleyan University. His publications include work on the geodynamic evolution of the Appalachians, Costa Rica, Greece, Panama, and the Philippines. Donald Theodore Sanders has worked as a petroleum geologist, a science editor for encyclopedias, and an editor of corporate scientific publications. Before retiring from IBM, he created and edited that company's award-winning academic magazine Perspectives in Computing. Zeilinga de Boer and Sanders are also the coauthors of Earthquakes in Human History (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle

Sanders, Donald Theodore

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ballard, Robert D.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Robert D. Ballard ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Table of Conversion xvii

Chapter 1: Volcanism: Origins and Consequences 1

SIDEBAR: DATING OF VOLCANIC EVENTS

Chapter 2: The Hawaiian Islands and the Legacy of Pelee the Fire Goddess 22

Chapter 3: The Bronze Age Eruption of Thera: Destroyer of Atlantis and Minoan Crete? 47

Chapter 4: The Eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E.: Cultural Reverberations through the Ages 74

Chapter 5: Iceland: Coming Apart at the Seams 108

Chapter 6: The Eruption of Tambora in 1815 and "the Year without a Summer" 138

SIDEBAR: MOUNT TOBA: BIGGER THAN TAMBORA

Chapter 7: Krakatu, 1883: Devastation, Death, and Ecologic Revival 157

SIDEBAR: THE GHOSTS OF MERAPI

Chapter 8: The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelee: A Geological Catastrophe with Political Overtones 186

SIDEBAR: MOUNT PELEE AND THE PANAMA CANAL

Chapter 9: Tristan da Cunba in 1961: Exile to the Twentieth Century 209

Chapter 10: Mount St. Helens in 1980: Catastrophe in the Cascades 228

Afterword 250

Glossary 251

Notes and References 261

Selected Bibliography 279

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer is the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science at Wesleyan University. His publications include work on the geodynamic evolution of the Appalachians, Costa Rica, Greece, Panama, and the Philippines. Donald Theodore Sanders has worked as a petroleum geologist, a science editor for encyclopedias, and an editor of corporate scientific publications. Before retiring from IBM, he created and edited that company's award-winning academic magazine Perspectives in Computing. Zeilinga de Boer and Sanders are also the coauthors of Earthquakes in Human History (Princeton).