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The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large-scale volcanism (2015)
Journal Article
Gertisser. (2015). The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large-scale volcanism. Geology Today, 132 -136. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12099

The year 2015 marks the bicentenary of the largest eruption in recent historic times: the 10–11 April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Indonesia. Two hundred years after the eruption, an incomplete or inaccurate record of large eruptions over the past... Read More about The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large-scale volcanism.

Geophysical surveys to help map buried igneous intrusions, Snowdonia, North Wales, UK (2015)
Journal Article
Moseley, D., Pringle, J., Haslam, R., Egan, S., Rogers, S., Gertisser, R., …Stimpson, I. (2015). Geophysical surveys to help map buried igneous intrusions, Snowdonia, North Wales, UK. Geology Today, 109 -115 (6). https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12096

The geology of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales comprises a mixture of Lower Palaeozoic shallow marine sediments, acidic igneous rocks and basic intrusions of the Welsh Basin that were subsequently deformed during the Caledonian Orogeny. Th... Read More about Geophysical surveys to help map buried igneous intrusions, Snowdonia, North Wales, UK.

The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka (2015)
Journal Article
Lowe, J. J., Ramsey, C. B., Gertisser, R., Housley, R. A., Lane, C. S., & Tomlinson, E. L. (2015). The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 118, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.006

This paper introduces the aims and scope of the RESET project (RESponse of humans to abrupt Environmental Transitions), a programme of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) between 2008 and 2013; it also provides the contex... Read More about The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka.