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Professor Stephen Self currently holds the chair in volcanology at The Open University, where he's head of the Volcano Dynamics Group in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space, and Astronomical research (CEPSAR).

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Icelandic eruptionsBBC

By Professor Stephen Self (The Open University)

06 December 2006

A volcanic eruption in Iceland which started in 1783 may have had a direct effect on the UK and parts of Western Europe.  Read more : Icelandic eruptions

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Gertisser, Ralf; Self, Stephen; Thomas, Louise E.; Handley, Heather K.; Van Calsteren, Peter and wolff, John A. (2012). Processes and timescales of Magma Genesis and differentiation leading to the Great Tambora Eruption in 1815. Journal of Petrology, 53(2), pp. 271–297.

Fraser, Wesley T.; Sephton, Mark A.; Watson, Jonathan S.; Self, Stephen; Lomax, Barry H.; James, David I.; Wellman, Charles H.; Callaghan, Terry V. and Beerling, David J. (2011). UV-B absorbing pigments in spores: biochemical responses to shade in a high-latitude birch forest and implications for sporopollenin-based proxies of past environmental change. Polar Research, 30 p. 8312.

Brown, Richard J.; Blake, S.; Bondre, N. R.; Phadnis, V. M. and Self, S. (2011). ´A´ā lava flows in the Deccan Volcanic Province, India, and their significance for the nature of continental flood basalt eruptions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 73(6), pp. 737–752.

Blake, S.; Self, S.; Sharma, K. and Sephton, S. (2010). Sulfur release from the Columbia River Basalts and other flood lava eruptions constrained by a model of sulfide saturation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 299(3-4), pp. 328–338.

Barry, T. L.; Self, S.; Kelley, S. P.; Reidel, S.; Hooper, P. and Widdowson, M. (2010). New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episodes. Lithos, 118(3-4), pp. 213–222.

Jay, Anne E.; Niocaill, Conall Mac; Widdowson, Mike; Self, Stephen and Turner, William (2009). New palaeomagnetic data from the Mahabaleshwar Plateau, Deccan Flood Basalt Province, India: implications for the volcanostratigraphic architecture of continental flood basalt provinces. Journal of the Geological Society, 166(1), pp. 13–24.

Sharma, Kirti; Self, Stephen; Blake, Stephen; Thordarson, Thorvaldur and Larsen, Gudrun (2008). The AD 1362 Öræfajökull eruption, S.E. Iceland: Physical volcanology and volatile release. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 178(4), pp. 719–739.

Self, Stephen; de Silva, Shanaka L. and Cortés, Joaquín A. (2008). Enigmatic clastogenic rhyolitic volcanism: the Corral de Coquena spatter ring, North Chile. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 177(4), pp. 812–821.

Lomax, Barry H.; Fraser, Wesley T.; Sephton, Mark A.; Callaghan, Terry V.; Self, Stephen; Harfoot, Michael; Pyle, John A.; Wellman, Charles H. and Beerling, David J. (2008). Plant spore walls as a record of long-term changes in ultraviolet-B radiation. Nature Geoscience, 1(9), pp. 592–596.

Self, S.; Jay, A. E.; Widdowson, M. and Keszthelyi, L. P. (2008). Correlation of the Deccan and Rajahmundry Trap lavas: Are these the longest and largest lava flows on Earth? Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 172(1-2), pp. 3–19.

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Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by mb

21 Apr 2007

All the references that I found describe it as the worst avalanche in England not the UK. MB Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

26 Jan 2007

Appologies, wrong thread ;) Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

26 Jan 2007

Should we not be talking about the fact that historians seen to only focus on the bloody romans and apparently how great they were. It's just lazy history that's been fed to us for far too many years... Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

26 Jan 2007

Got any details about the "avalanche" in Sussex........would love to find out ALL about it !!!!! :-) Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

26 Jan 2007

Surely the answer, John, is a few clicks from this page - Michael Portillo's Things We Forgot To Remember which looks at precisely the way some things form the historical canon and some things just... Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

26 Jan 2007

I would be very interested to read of your research. Best wishes, John Kirkaldy Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

22 Jan 2007

I thought the programme excellent. I live in Maulden and when I went into the church vestry and saw the memorial to a thirteen week old baby who died in September 1783 I was very moved. It brought... Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

22 Jan 2007

Hi, of course this is something we have pondered as well. Death came in so many forms in the late 18th century that it may have appeared to be part of the normal health landscape. There was no one... Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

20 Jan 2007

Simply because you can tell that someone has died of the Plague, or of hunger. But how can you tell if they died from the air they breeze and after several months ? That is why nobody seemed to have... Read more : Icelandic eruptions

Icelandic eruptions

Comment posted by Unknown

19 Jan 2007

Although the programme gave some clues, I am still not quite sure why the British (then and now weather obsessives) did not dwell on the problems of the effects of the events in Iceland. Other... Read more : Icelandic eruptions

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Professor Stephen Self currently holds the chair in volcanology at The Open University, where he's head of the Volcano Dynamics Group in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space, and Astronomical research (CEPSAR).
He has studied volcanic activity and volcanic rocks in many parts of the world, concentrating on explosive eruptions, large (flood) lava effusions, and the impact of volcanism on the atmosphere. He's written 170 articles and reviews in the scientific press, for books, and in other science magazines.

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