b5 Volcanism and climate
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1 T or F: Byron's Darkness poem was an exaggeration of a real event.
2 T or F: Andean-type volcanos occur only in South America.
3 T or F: Aerosols can persist for years in the troposphere
4 T or F: The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo caused Earth’s albedo to be greater for
two years.
5 T or F: The 1883 eruption of Krakatau made Moon look blue as seen from China.
6 T or F: The 1815 Mount Tambora eruption in Indonesia caused misery in New England
remembered as "eighteen hundred and froze to death.
7 T or F: Before AD 79 what is now Vesuvius was called Mt. Somna.
8 T or F: Before ca.1645 BC what is now Mt. Thera was called Santorini.
9 T or F: The Late Bronze Age ca.1645 BC eruption that made a sea-filled caldera where Mt.
Thera once was possibly spawned the legend of Atlantis.
10 T or F: Flood-basalt eruptions build stratovolcanoes.
11 T or F: Benjamin Franklin recognize that the "dry fogs" of volcanism cool the
climate.
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| Albedo 074-03-01 074-03-02 |
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| Andean-type volcanos 074-04-01 074-04-02 Cubic ice crystals 074-05-01 Troposphere, rain washed 074-06-01 |
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| Mount Pinatubo, 1991 074-07-01 074-07-02 |
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| Mount Tambora 1815 074-08-01 |
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| Mt. Somna, AD 79 074-09-01 |
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| Thera, 1645 BC 074-10-01 |
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| Phreatomagmatism 074-11-01 074-11-02 Phreatomagmatic Laki fissure eruptions, 1783 074-12-01 |
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| Steingrímsson 074-13-01 |
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| Franklin, dry fogs 074-14-01 |
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| Flood/plateau /stratified/trap basalts 074-15-01 |
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