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. 2020 Jul 28;117(30):17470-17472.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2011054117. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

The sun of Rome is set! Volcanic dust veils and their political fallout

Clive Oppenheimer  1
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The sun of Rome is set! Volcanic dust veils and their political fallout

Clive Oppenheimer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
The 10-km-diameter caldera of Okmok volcano dominates the northeastern end of Umnak Island in the Aleutian archipelago. It was formed partly by a paroxysmal eruption now dated to early 43 BCE. Okmok’s last eruption was an explosive affair in 2008. Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the US Geological Survey.
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