Krakatau the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem
On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Two-thirds of the island disappeared. When the pall of ash lifted, the toll in human lives stood at nearly 37,000 and more than...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
Harvard Univ. Press
1996
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Two-thirds of the island disappeared. When the pall of ash lifted, the toll in human lives stood at nearly 37,000 and more than 160 villages had been wiped away without a trace. All plant and animal life on Krakatau was obliterated Nine months after the explosion, a French expedition searching for signs of life discovered a single spider that had crossed to the island on a balloon of silk. Life had returned to Krakatau. Scientists have been studying the island ever since |
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| Beschreibung: | XI, 346 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0674505689 0-674-50568-9 |