The Volcano That Changed The World


	The Volcano That Changed The World

MorganLvr

4-15-2008 10:55 AM

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nature, volcano, climate change, science

MorganLvr says:

Rapid climate change possibly caused by massive volcano

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4-16-2008 8:19 AM

invictus

Like the one that was caused by Thera (Santorini) eruption around 1650 BCE - possible source of inspiration for the Exodus story.

6-29-2008 9:04 PM

MorganLvr

Yeah. Now they are thinking that this is what killed off the dinosaurs rather than an impact from space.

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                <P class="intro">Eruption in 1600 may have plunged the globe into cold climate chaos.</p> <P class="byline">
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                        <A href="http://www.nature.com/news/author/Alexandra+Witze/index.html" linkindex="20" set="yes">Alexandra Witze</A>
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            <DIV class="inline-image"><IMG alt="Huaynaputina" src="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/images/news.2008.747.jpg" /><SPAN class="imagedescription">Did the Huaynaputina volcano, seen here from a satellite, inflict misery on the world?<SPAN class="imagecredit">ASTER Volcano Archive</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><P>Four centuries ago, a Peruvian volcano blew its top – and the whole world may have felt it, a new study suggests.</p> <P>The eruption in 1600 of Huaynaputina, a stratovolcano in the Andes mountains, blanketed nearby villages with glowing rock and ash, and killed some 1,500 people. But it may also have had a far wider effect, by injecting sulphur particles high into the atmosphere and disrupting the climate worldwide.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/461251B5-C919-4DED-A191-1EE2B5321938/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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