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Title Volcanoes in the Quaternary / edited by C.R. Firth and W.J. McGuire
Published London ; Bath : Geological Society, 1999

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Description viii,220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Series Geological Society special publication ; no. 161
Geological Society special publication ; no. 161
Contents New Zealand, North Island volcanic province: The Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand : geophysical evidence for its eruption history / J. Cassidy ... [et al.]; Impact of tephra fall and environmental change : a 1000 year record from Matakana Island, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand / T.M. Giles ... [et al.]; Volcanic hazards in Auckland, New Zealand : a preliminary assessment of the threat posed by central North Island silicic volcanism based on the Quaternary tephrostratigraphical record / R.M. Newnham, D.J. Lowe and B.V. Alloway -- East African Rift Valley and the Mediterranean: The role of tephrachronology in recognizing synchronous caldera-forming events at the Quaternary volcanoes Longonot and Suswa, south Kenya Rift / S.C. Scott and I.P. Skilling; Deep sea tephra from Nisyros Island, eastern Aegean Sea, Greece / J.C. Hardiman; Eruptive and seismic activity at Etna Volcano (Italy) between 1977 and 1991 / S. Vinciguerra ... [et al.] -- Late Quaternary eruptions in Iceland: Modelling the impact of Icelandic volcanic eruptions upon the prehistoric societies and environment of northern and western Britain / J. Gratton, D. Gilbertson and D. Charman; Characterization of tephras using magnetic properties : an example from SE Iceland / S. Gonzalez, J.M. Jones and D.L. Williams; An assessment of discriminant function analysis in the identification and correlation of distal Icelandic tephras in the British Isles / D.J. Charman and J. Gratton; Regional warming of the lower atmosphere in the wake of volcanic eruptions : the role of the Laki fissure eruption in the hot summer of 1783 / J. Gratton and J. Sadler; Environmental and social responses in Europe to the 1783 eruption of the Laki fissure volcano in Iceland : a consideration of contemporary documentary evidence / M. Brayshay and J. Grattan -- Hazard assessment: Human adjustments and social vulnerability to volcanic hazards : the case of Furnas Volcano, São Miguel, Ac̦ores / D.K. Chester ... [et al.]; Reconstruction of the 1706 Montaña Negra eruption : emergency procedures for Garachico and El Tanque, Tenerife, Canary Islands / M. Solana and A. Aparicio
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Volcanism.
Volcanism -- Environmental aspects.
Paleoecology -- Quaternary.
Volcanoes -- History.
Volcanic hazard analysis.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary.
Author McGuire, Bill, 1954-
Firth, Callum R.
Geological Society of London.
LC no. 2002427062
ISBN 1862390495 :