Living with the volcano: The 11th century ad eruption of sunset crater

Living Under the Shadow: Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 107-132

  Elson, Mark D ^a   Ort, Michael H ^b   Anderson, Kirk C ^b   Heidke, James M ^a  

^a Optics Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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