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Solarsilicon Project being developed by the US Company Silicor Materials Inc. in Iceland and its pollution. As well as other environmental issues including global warming.
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Sulfur mass loading of the atmosphere from volcanic eruptions:: calibration of the ice core record on basis of sulfate aerosol deposition in polar regions from the 1982 El
Chichon eruption, NASA grant NAG51304
311:. In 1999, Sigurdsson published a scholarly account of the history of volcanology. He was also editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, also published in 1999. He was awarded the Coke Medal of the
402:. Narragansett, RI; Washington, DC; Springfield, VA: University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Technical Information Service.
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ENTIRE VILLAGE dropped DEAD overnight (*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*)
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in Italy and the consequent destruction of the Roman cities of
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551:"Glass from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in Haiti"
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229:in the United Kingdom, where he obtained a
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