Recent Volcanism and the Stratosphere

• Published in: Science
• Main Author: Cronin, John F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1971
• Subjects: Arctic; Bali; Surtsey; Trident; Hekla; Iceland; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.172.3985.847; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.172.3985.847

In the quiet years after the 1956 eruption of the Bezymianny volcano in central Kamchatka, it is doubtful that any volcano vented into the stratosphere until the 1963 eruptions of Agung (Bali), Trident (Alaska), and Surtsey (Iceland). From 1963 to the Hekla (Iceland) event in May 1970, two latitudin...