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04752cam a22003978i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1020313538 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181105020047.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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180312s2018 dcuab 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2018008391 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCQ |
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DLC |
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OCLCF |
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OQX |
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CLE |
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BUR |
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NFG |
| 019 ## - |
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1056177651 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781588346353 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1588346358 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1020313538 |
| Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1056177651 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
551.2109 |
| Item number |
P967 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Prothero, Donald R., |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
116875 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
When humans nearly vanished : |
| Remainder of title |
the catastrophic explosion of the Toba volcano / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Donald R. Prothero. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
1809 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Washington, D.C. : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Smithsonian Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2018] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
198 pages : |
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illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
| Media Type Code |
n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier Type Term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Various historic volcanoes, and the ability to survive them. It includes the Toba volcano, from Indonesia. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano, the largest eruption in the past 28 million years, and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution."-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--earth's largest volcanic eruption in the past 28 million years--and its lasting impact on both the planet and human evolution. Some 74,000 years ago, the huge dome of Mount Toba, in today's Sumatra, Indonesia, began to rumble. Deep vibrations shook the earth, and jets of steam and ash emanated from the restive volcano's summit. Then came an explosion louder than any sound heard by Homo sapiens since our species evolved on earth. As the volcano ripped open, the energy of a million tons of TNT was released. Seven hundred cubic miles of magma spewed outward in an explosion 40 times larger than the biggest hydrogen bomb and more than a thousand times as powerful as the famed Krakatau eruption in 1883. So much ash and debris were injected into the stratosphere that they partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop by five to nine degrees. The earth took a full decade to recover to its pre-eruption temperatures--and untold millions of animals, including early members of our own species, died. [This book] examines the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only a few thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide. The evidence is in our DNA, which reveals traces of a genetic bottleneck--a radical reduction in genetic diversity seen only when a population of organisms is dramatically diminished. This sparse group of survivors could be the ancestors of all humans alive today. Providing vivid explanations of how supervolcanoes work and how proof of the Toba eruption was teased out of geological, climate, and genetic data, Donald R. Prothero explores both findings supporting the Toba bottleneck theory and the arguments rallied against it. Offering insight into how the world changed in the aftermath of Toba--and what might happen should such a supervolcano erupt today--Prothero's riveting account of this event, both calamitous and pivotal, is not to be missed."--Dust jacket. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue: A very bad day on Planet Earth -- 1: Mystery of the missing megavolcano. Serendipity ; Frozen in the ice ; Data in Davy Jones's locker ; Blowing the case wide open ; Mystery solved -- 2: Vulcan's fury. The forge of Hephaistos ; Incineration ; Why do volcanoes behave so differently from one another? -- 3: Land of the killer volcanoes. The Indonesian arc ; Krakatau cracks ; Tambora and the year without a summer ; Supervolcanoes -- 4: Clues in your genes. The blueprint of life ; Too many genes ; Clockwork DNA ; "Mitochondrial Eve" ; Through the bottleneck ; Bottlenecks in humans -- 5: Roots. The third chimpanzee ; Fossils versus molecules ; Out of Eurasia? ; The Piltdown hoax -- 6: Out of Africa. The Taung Child, Mrs. Ples, and Dear Boy ; The human lineage ; Our genus, Homo ; Modern humans evolve -- 7: Humanity at the crossroads. Consilience ; The threads of Toba ; Bottlenecks everywhere ; Testing the hypothesis ; The critics strike back ; Where do we stand now? -- 8: Volcanoes of doom. The "Big Five" ; The doom of the dinosaurs ; "The Great Dying" ; The third eruption ; Volcanoes and extinction -- 9: Future shocks. Could it happen again? ; Supervolcanoes in America ; A perspective on catastrophes. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Supervolcanoes. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
375503 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Volcanoes. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
92741 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Survival. |
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27648 |
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C0 |
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NFG |
