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Vulcanology (F682): The study of the origin of ancient and modern volcanoes and vulcanicity. Includes the location, history and structure of volcanoes, their emissions and deposits. Also includes the reconstruction of these characteristics and of earth history from studies of volcanic materials and their impacts in the geological record.

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Link INUNDATION OF ATALANTE (426 BCE) - DISCUSSION

Strabo and Diodorus Siculus mention tsunamigenic earthquakes in the region of Atalante, with the former basing his account on a lost catalogue of...

Plato, Atlantis, Atalante, Earthquakes, Tsunami, Thucydides view
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