RE: Significant Find by the Israel Antiquities Authority
April 10, 2014 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2014 at 2:33 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 9, 2014 at 11:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:still the aerosol the eruption put into the air changed the weather in egypt enough to kill several million egyptians.
Do you have a source for that? I can't find anything on it.
Actually, The volcanic eruption whose aerosol killed several million egyptians is the 1783 Lakagígar eruption in Iceland, not the 1814 Tambora eruption in Indonesia. I got the two confused. Mea Culpa.
Oman, Luke; Robock, Alan; Stenchikov, Georgiy L.; Thordarson, Thorvaldur (September 30, 2006). "High-latitude eruptions cast shadow over the African monsoon and the flow of the Nile". Geophysical Research Letters 33 (L18711).
A B Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (November 22, 2006). "Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt, Study Shows". Science Daily.
BTW, the climate impact of 1783 Lakagígar eruption is estimated to have killed 6-10 million people world wide, making it by far the most deadly non-epidemic natural diseaster in history.
