- Title
Explosive start to last ice age.
- Authors
Ramaswamy, V.
- Abstract
Focuses on an article by Rampino and Self in the September 3, 1992 issue of `Nature' that suggests that the massive volcanic eruption at Toba, in the Indian Ocean, 73,500 years ago, may have accelerated the onset of the last ice age by loading the stratosphere with aerosols and shadowing the Earth. Effect of volcanic eruptions on climate; More.
- Subjects
INDIAN Ocean; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; VOLCANOES
- Publication
Nature, 1992, Vol 359, Issue 6390, p14
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/359014a0