Eruptions that shook the world

✍ Scribed by Clive Oppenheimer

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Preface (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xv)
1. Fire and brimstone: how volcanoes work (page 1)
2. Eruption styles, hazards and ecosystem impacts (page 22)
3. Volcanoes and global climate change (page 53)
4. Forensic volcanology (page 77)
5. Relics, myths and chronicles (page 109)
6. Killer plumes (page 140)
7. Human origins (page 166)
8. The ash giant/sulphur dwarf (page 181)
9. European volcanism in prehistory (page 208)
10. The rise of Teotihuacán (page 240)
11. Dark Ages: dark nature? (page 253)
12. The haze famine (page 269)
13. The last great subsistence crisis in the Western world (page 295)
14. Volcanic catastrophe risk (page 320)
Appendix A: Large eruptions (page 355)
Appendix B: Further reading and data sources (page 364)
References (page 369)
Index (page 385)