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A Mist Connection - An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
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A Mist Connection - An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Catastrophe Studies / Historische Katastrophenforschung
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In the summer of 1783, an unusual dry fog blanketed large parts of
the northern hemisphere. The fog brought with it bloodred sunsets,
a foul sulfuric odor, and seemingly, a host of other peculiar
weather events. Inspired by the Enlightenment, many naturalists
attempted to find reasonable explanations for these occurrences.
Between 8 June 1783 and 7 February 1784, unbeknown to the
contemporaries outside of Iceland, a 27-kilometer-long fissure
volcano erupted, producing the largest volume of lava released by
any volcanic eruption on planet Earth in the last millennium. In
Iceland, the eruption led to the death of one-fifth of the
population. The jetstream carried its volcanic gases further afield
to Europe and beyond. "The Laki Eruption of 1783" is an
environmental history of the Laki eruption, which combines methods
of historical disaster research, climate history, global history,
history of science, and geology in an interdisciplinary approach.
Icelandic Laki-sized flood lava eruptions have a statistical
recurrence period of 200 to 500 years; it is crucial to understand
their consequences so that we can prepare for the next one. A
volcanic eruption of this scale could be disastrous for our modern,
globalized, and interconnected world.
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