Screen LibraryVolcanic activity and human ecology /
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1979. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126391206 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 644 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780126391206 0126391203 |
| Index Number: | GF58 |
| CLC: | X2 |
| Contents: |
Foreword / Harold E. Malde -- Introduction / Payson D. Sheets and Donald K. Grayson -- Volcanoes and their activity / Fred M. Bullard -- Geologic methods in studies of quaternary tephra / Laurence R. Kittleman -- Soils derived from tephra / F.C. Ugolini and R.J. Zasoski -- On the damage caused by volcanic eruptions with special reference to tephra and gases / Sigurdur Thorarinsson -- Volcanoes as hazard : an overview / Richard A. Warrick -- Volcanic-hazards studies in the cascade range of the western United States / Dwight R. Crandell, Donal R. Mullineaux, and C. Dan Miller -- Contemporary responses to volcanism : case studies from the Cascades and Hawaii / David Hodge, Virginia Sharp, and Marion Marts -- Effects of the eruption of Pari cutin volcano on landforms, vegetation, and human occupancy / John D. Rees -- Impact of Pari cutin on five communities / Mary Lee Nolan -- The significance of volcanism in the prehistory of subarctic northwest North America / William B. Workman. People and pumice on the Alaska peninsula / Don E. Dumond -- Pollen influx and the deposition of Mazama and Glacier Peak tephra / Eric Blinman, Peter J. Mehringer, Jr., and John C. Sheppard -- Mount Mazama, climatic change, and Fort Rock Basin archaeofaunas / Donald K. Grayson -- Sunset crater and the sinagua : a new interpretation / Peter J. Pilles -- Comparative effects of climatic change, cultural impact, and volcanism in the paleoecology of Flagstaff, Arizona, A.D. 900-1300 / Richard H. Hevly, Roger E. Kelly, Glenn A. Anderson, and Stanley J. Olsen -- Environmental and cultural effects of the Ilopango eruption in Central America / Payson D. Sheets -- The eruption of Thera and Minoan Crete / Colin Renfrew -- Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, A.D. 79 / Wilhelmina F. Jashemski -- Volcanic disasters and the archaeological record / Donald K. Grayson and Payson D. Sheets. |