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Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology

✍ Scribed by Payson D. Sheets and Donald K. Grayson (Eds.)

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Leaves
643
Edition
0
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of Contributors, Pages xiii-xiv
Foreword, Pages xv-xvi, HAROLD E. MALDE
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-8, PAYSON D. SHEETS, DONALD K. GRAYSON
2 - Volcanoes and Their Activity, Pages 9-48, FRED M. BULLARD
3 - Geologic Methods in Studies of Quaternary Tephra, Pages 49-82, LAURENCE R. KITTLEMAN
4 - Soils Derived from Tephra, Pages 83-124, F.C. UGOLINI, R.J. ZASOSKI
5 - On the Damage Caused by Volcanic Eruptions with Special Reference to Tephra and Gases, Pages 125-159, SICURDUR THORARINSSON
6 - Volcanoes as Hazard: An Overview, Pages 161-194, RICHARD A. WARRICK
7 - Volcanic-Hazards Studies in the Cascade Range of the Western United States, Pages 195-219, DWIGHT R. CRANDELL, DONAL R. MULLINEAUX, C. DAN MILLER
8 - Contemporary Responses to Volcanism: Case Studies from the Cascades and Hawaii, Pages 221-248, DAVID HODGE, VIRGINIA SHARP, MARION MARTS
9 - Effects of the Eruption of Parícutin Volcano on Landforms, Vegetation, and Human Occupancy, Pages 249-292, JOHN D. REES
10 - Impact of Parícutin on Five Communities, Pages 293-338, MARY LEE NOLAN
11 - The Significance of Volcanism in the Prehistory of Subarctic Northwest North America, Pages 339-371, WILLIAM B. WORKMAN
12 - People and Pumice on the Alaska Peninsula, Pages 373-392, DON E. DUMOND
13 - Pollen Influx and the Deposition of Mazama and Glacier Peak Tephra, Pages 393-425, ERIC BLINMAN, PETER J. MEHRINGER JR., JOHN C. SHEPPARD
14 - Mount Mazama, Climatic Change, and Fort Rock Basin Archaeofaunas, Pages 427-457, DONALD K. GRAYSON
15 - Sunset Crater and the Sinagua: A New Interpretation, Pages 459-485, PETER J. PILLES JR.
16 - Comparative Effects of Climatic Change, Cultural Impact, and Volcanism in the Paleoecology of Flagstaff, Arizona, A.D. 900–1300, Pages 487-523, RICHARD H. HEVLY, ROGER E. KELLY, GLENN A. ANDERSON, STANLEY J. OLSEN
17 - Environmental and Cultural Effects of the Ilopango Eruption in Central America, Pages 525-564, PAYSON D. SHEETS
18 - The Eruption of Thera and Minoan Crete, Pages 565-585, COLIN RENFREW
19 - Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, A.D. 79, Pages 587-622, WILHELMINA F. JASHEMSKI
20 - Volcanic Disasters and the Archaeological Record, Pages 623-632, DONALD K. GRAYSON, PAYSON D. SHEETS
Subject Index, Pages 633-644

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