Two Volcanoes trigger Crises of the Late Antiquity

International team of climate researchers reconstructs global cooling in the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian. Ice-cores and data about sulfate flux at Greenland and Artica reveils the pasts climate disasters. Their research was presented at EGU 2016; Vienna recently.

Vienna: Presenting the new study, Matthew Toohey GEOMAR is the second from the right. Photo: Kirstin Krüger, UiO/CEED

Researchers from Department of Geosciences, The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics and GEOMAR presenting their new research at a press release at EGU 2016.

Reference

Toohey, M., K. Krüger, M. Sigl, F. Stordal, H. Svensen (2016): Climatic and societal impacts of a volcanic double event at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Climatic Change (Online first)

EGU General Assembly 2016

In the press

Vulkanutbruddene som endret alt, Aftenposten Viten, 3.05.2016

Two Massive Volcanic Eruptions May Have Led To Dark Ages In Europe And Beyond, Tech Times, 23.04.2016

Did El Chichon kickstart the Mayan 'Dark Age'? 6th century volcanic eruptions may have caused devastation and social upheaval that rippled around the world, DailyMail Online, 21.04.2016

Vulkanausbrüche förderten Ende der Antike, Scinexx, 20.04.2016

El Chichon eruption implicated in Mayan upheaval, BBC, 20.04.2016

Did volcano eruptions tip Europe into Dark Ages?phys.org, 19.04.2016

Volcanic eruptions triggered societal crises during 6th century, United Press International, 19.04.2016

Publisert 19. apr. 2016 12:18 - Sist endret 4. mai 2016 20:29