VOLCANOES IN HISTORY, IN THEORY, IN ERUPTION
CONTENTS VOLCANISM: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES SIDEBAR: DATING OF VOLCANIC EVENTS THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND THE LEGACY OF PELE THE FIRE GODDESS THE BRONZE AGE ERUPTION OF THERA DESTROYER OF ATLANTIS AND MINOAN CRETE? THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS IN 79 C E CULTURAL REVERBERATIONS THROUGH THE AGES ICELAND: COMING APART AT THE SEAMS THE ERUPTION OF TAMBORA IN 1815 AND “THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER” SIDEBAR: MOUNT TOBA: BIGGER THAN TAMBORA KRAKATAU, 1883: DEVASTATION, DEATH, AND ECOLOGIC REVIVAL SIDEBAR: THE GHOSTS OF MERAPI THE 1902 ERUPTION OF MOUNT PELÉE A GEOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE WITH POLITICAL OVERTONES SIDEBAR: MOUNT PELÉE AND THE PANAMA CANAL TRISTAN DA CUNHA IN 1961 EXILE TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MOUNT ST HELENS IN 1980 CATASTROPHE IN THE CASCADES AFTERWORD