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Posted at May 16/2010 11:17PM:
Katey: Laki Fissure Eruption
final archaeology paper.doc
Posted at May 21/2010 01:57PM:
kholmber: This paper was written in an engaging narrative style and I know this is quite different from what you are trained to do in your geology classes so appreciate you pushing past your disciplinary comfort zone. I also know it likely required a tremendous amount of reading and assimilation of many of John Grattan’s works to make it read as smoothly as it does. I enjoyed the phenomenological description of the sun’s dull red appearance, salts turning dry rather than wet in the fog, and historical perceptions of what was perceived as a ‘permanent’ climate change rather than a temporary phenomena. It was good to bring the discussion from the significance of a historical ‘natural’ event to the contemporary ‘cultural’ sub-stratospheric air pollution and how those two might relate. Your ending sentence, which mentions the ‘inevitable repeat’ of a massive fissure eruption might be melodramatic without specifying a time frame; volcanic eruptions are, if nothing else, definitively unpredictable. I think that you could have made the paper a bit longer and detailed but also appreciate that it is streamlined.
