Icelandic Volcano Eruption Cause of Late Third Century BC Famines

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 12:10 in Earth & Climate

In the late Third Century BC, about half of northern China's population perished in wide-spread famines which may have been caused by an Icelandic volcano eruption, two NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists said.

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