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Published online 11 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.747
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The volcano that changed the world
Eruption in 1600 may have plunged the globe into cold climate chaos.
Four centuries ago, a Peruvian volcano blew its top – and the whole world may have felt it, a new study suggests.
The eruption in 1600 of Huaynaputina, a stratovolcano in the Andes mountains, blanketed nearby villages with glowing rock and ash, and killed some 1,500 people.
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In www.cienciorama.unam.mx there are two articles about the eruption of The Ilopando, in El Salvador. The author, Victor Fuentes, from Chile, thinks that as the probably causes of the strong descent of the temperature after 541 a.C., another glacial era that had terrible efects in the world. GZamarrón
Very many of the researches done at the U.S. Universities, appear to be , too facile. Overconfident of their findings, thety are not necessarily grounded on sound academic rigour. That is the impresssion one gathers after evaluating the tones of their findings. .........PRADEEP B. ATHAVALE.,PUNE,INDIA. *******************************