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YOUR excellent leading article on this great event omits to call attention to a factor which I have long maintained to be of the greatest interest and importance from the point of view of meteorology and geology in general. I allude to the quantity of gases or vapour emitted during the eruptions. This must bear a direct relation to the quantity of matter emitted (whatever its form) and also to the height and distance to which the matter may be ejected or carried.
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O'REILLY, J. Scientific Aspects of the Java Catastrophe. Nature 28, 515 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028515b0
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