Eruptions That Shook the World [Book Review]
2012
Geological and biological
evolution and epic
myth are punctuated
by such catastrophic
events as massive volcanic
eruptions that
shake Earth, change the climate, cover a continent with ash, and
reset evolution. The term super volcano,
popularized by the Discovery Channel,
does not begin to describe the phenomenon,
which leaves some evidence in
geological, archaeological, and DNA
records, but blows most of it away. Civilization,
certainly, and humankind,
probably, will not survive the next one.
Clive Oppenheimer’s Eruptions That
Shook the World makes the case that we
should understand these events. It also
inadvertently makes the case that contemporary
theories about the ultimate
causes of world-class eruptions are as
myth-driven as those involving Hades
and Poseidon.
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