Krakatau : the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem / Ian Thornton.
Krakatau : the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem / Ian Thornton.
Krakatau : the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem / Ian Thornton.
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Cambridge., Massachusetts : Harvard University Press : c1997.
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T0394348
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English
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xi, 346 p. : ill., maps., ports. : 24 cm.
Contents
1. One Touch of Nature -- 2. The Day That Shook the World -- 3. The Great Enigmas of 1883 -- 4. Why Krakatau? -- 5. Life Returns -- 6. The "Krakatau Problem" -- 7. Arrival -- 8. Krakatau's Child -- 9. Community Enrichment -- 10. Divergence of the Forests -- 11. Life on an Active Volcano -- 12. Kraka...
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Cambridge., Massachusetts : Harvard University Press : c1997.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1997.
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On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Two-thirds of the island disappeared. When the pall of ash lifted, the toll in human lives stood at nearly 37,000 and more than 160 villages had been wiped away without a trace....
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Krakatau : the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem / Ian Thornton.
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Includes Index.
Bibliography: p. [309]-327.
Transferred from N574.5267/3.
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c1997.
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T0394348
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74VM5QjDgmmZ
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ISBN
0674505727 (alk. paper)
9780674505681 (alk. paper)
0674505689 (alk. paper)
9780674505728 (alk. paper)
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574.5267095982
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991003765159702626
