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Deadly 13th-Century Volcano Eruption: Mystery Solved?
National Geographic ^
| 9-30-2013
| Brian Handwerk
Posted on 10/01/2013 7:06:15 PM PDT by Renfield
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:06:15 PM PDT
by
Renfield
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:06:32 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
I always thought that Krakatoa was the biggest one.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:11:19 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
To: Renfield
>>The cataclysm blasted 10 cubic miles (40 cubic kilometers) of debris up to 27 miles (43 kilometers) high into the sky, producing fallout that settled around the world.<<
It is hard to even imagine something that huge. If Krakatoa=200Mt then this would have been 1600Mt or more — 500 H bombs.
Probably could be heard halfway around the world (assuming Krakatoa was heard 3,000 miles away).
And Yosemite will dwarf them all.
And all because people in the 1200s would not stop using their cars to get to work.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:21:39 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: freedumb2003
Yosemite?
Or Yellowstone?
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:23:34 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The eruption of Krakatau produced less volcanic ash than the 1815 Tambora eruption, which spewed something like
15 cubic miles of volcanic ash into the atmosphere. That was enough to cause pretty severe climatic changes, including essentially eliminating summer at the higher latitudes in 1816.
Today, the Indonesian volcanoes are VERY closely monitored because almost every volcano in the Indonesian Archipelago is capable of spewing out gigantic amounts of volcanic ash into the atmosphere. One volcano on Sumatra island--Toba--is a true supervolcano that could spew well over 140 cubic miles of ash in a single eruption event, which would have devastating worldwide effects on agricultural production.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:24:12 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Re: Tambora
Even Thomas Jefferson noted the change in the weather. Then there are the news stories about the year (1816) without a Summer.
To: DuncanWaring
>>Yosemite?
Or Yellowstone?<<
Thanks — I meant Yellowstone of course.
I was looking at some great pictures of the former recently so you can see how I messed it up.
The good news is that when the Yellowstone Caldera goes, my mistake will be erased along with the rest of humans.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:26:30 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: freedumb2003
Ha ha, thanks for getting me all nervous and then LOL!
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:28:31 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
To: DuncanWaring
I’m sure he meant Yellowstone, though there was a volcanic event just a few miles southeast of Yosemite 750,000 years ago that killed large animals as far away as present day Kansas and dropped hot rocks on what is now New York: the Long Valley Caldera.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:29:39 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: Renfield
between May and October of 1257 Tracks with the beginning of the little ice age.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:33:03 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(The Presidency is broken.)
To: Renfield
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:35:14 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: freedumb2003
And if Yellowstone blows next year, it won’t be early, and if it doesn’t blow for another 10,000 years, it won’t be late.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:35:30 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Renfield
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:38:28 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: DuncanWaring
>>And if Yellowstone blows next year, it wont be early, and if it doesnt blow for another 10,000 years, it wont be late.
<<
Just like my ex-wife.
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:40:17 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:48:49 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: freedumb2003
If Krakatoa=200Mt then this would have been 1600Mt or more 500 H bombs.
So, was there the equivalent of a “nuclear winter”, or did the explosion create glo-bull warming?
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posted on
10/01/2013 7:52:51 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
It could have started the Little Ice Age which lasted quite a while. Solar activity during LIA was low, so maybe the combination?
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posted on
10/01/2013 8:12:40 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DuncanWaring
Don't stop him, he's on a roll.
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posted on
10/01/2013 8:21:11 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: freedumb2003
And it was George W. Bush’s fault!
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posted on
10/01/2013 8:58:16 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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