Hi, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 7:54:13 PM, you wrote:
> Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Thursday, October 9, 2003, 6:22:17 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>>Here's a cheerful thought. I learned today that the whole of >>>>Yellowstone is in the caldera of an enormous and very, very powerful >>>>active volcano of extraordinary magnitude. And the centre is rising. >>>>When it blows it will change the entire planet. >> >>> Been reading "Krakatoa"? >> >>no, just started reading this: >>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713996404/qid=1065723234/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/202-7804832-0159011 > Than you should have a go at "Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded", by > Simon Winchester (author of "The Professor and the Madman" and "The Map > that Changed the World"). yes, I probably will sometime. Although I think I'll have a break from vulcanism for a bit - I seem to have had a run on it recently, by coincidence. I've just finished 'Pompeii' by Robert Harris, recently watched something on TV about it, and before 'Pompeii' I read 'Out of Eden' by Philip Oppenheimer http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841196975/qid=1065728559/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/202-7804832-0159011 which makes a lot of the Toba explosion on Sumatra 74,000 years ago, that gave the ancestors of most of us rather a hard time when it covered the whole of India in ash. It was the biggest explosion of the last 2 million years. http://zyx.org/TOBA.html -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
