Debate Erupts Anew: Did Thera's Explosion Doom Minoan Crete?
International Herald Tribune | 10-23-2003 | William J. Broad
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New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 1998, Pages 279-289
13 July 1997 | Gregory A. Zielinski, Mark S. Germani
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Director posits proof of biblical Exodus
The Globe and Mail | 14 April 2006 | Michael Posner
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Constantinople's Volcanic Twilight (Kuwae eruption)
Huaynaputina (includes image)
"Huaynaputina was the site of a single catastrophic eruption in February 1600, which was remarkable not only for its intensity, but because it was the only major explosive eruption in historic times in the Central Andes. A colourful account of the eruption is to be found in the journals of Vasquez de Espinoza (translated from the Spanish in 1942). The eruption completely destroyed the pre-1600 edifice which was described as " a low ridge in the centre of a sierra". Ash from the eruption is widespread and still mantles much of the surrounding countryside as far as Arequipa, 80 km away. It now forms a useful regional stratigraphic marker horizon throughout Peru (e.g. in the Quelccaya ice cap (see Chapter 1, Figure 8; Thompson et al., 1986). In the Greenland ice core acidity profile, the eruption produced an acid "spike" larger in magnitude than the Krakatau 1883 eruption (Hammer et al., 1980; de Silva & Francis, 1990) and remarkable optical effects were reported from the northern hemisphere in 1601 (Lamb, 1970). Notwithstanding the magnitude of this eruption, its deposits have never been examined."
From the Global Volcanism Program (excerpt):
"This powerful fissure-fed eruption may have produced nearly 30 cu km* of dacitic tephra, including pyroclastic flows and surges that traveled 13 km to the east and SE. Lahars reached the Pacific Ocean, 120 km away. The eruption caused substantial damage to the major cities of Arequipa and Moquengua, and regional economies took 150 years to fully recover."
* Tambora is estimated to have been 80 cubic km.