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Tidal Terror. Last year, after careful analysis of cores taken from the sea bottom in the eastern Mediterranean, Columbia University Geologists Dragoslav Ninkovitch and Bruce Heezen established that there had actually been two volcanic eruptions on Thera, one around 1500 B.C., the other some 50 years later. The second eruption was so violent, they determined, that its ashes and poisonous vapors were carried hundreds of miles to the south by prevailing winds...
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