Laki
Proper noun
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Laki
A mountain in Iceland
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But he agreed the pollutant cloud produced by the Laki eruptions could very well have caused environmental damage and ill-health in many parts of Europe.
In a long eruption that continued over months Laki spewed out enough toxic gases to poison the entire lower atmosphere, especially over Europe.
While most of us know that Mt. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79 A.D., Iceland's Laki eruption caused worldwide devastation in 1783, and the death of more than a million people.
The last major outpouring occurred in 1783–84 from the Laki fissure which is approximately convert long.
Other volcanoes that erupted during the era and may have contributed to the cooling include Billy Mitchell (ca. 1580), Huaynaputina (1600), Mount Parker (1641), Long Island (Papua New Guinea) (ca. 1660), and Laki (1783).
The population of Iceland fell by half, though this may have been caused by fluorosis after the eruption of the volcano Laki in 1783. citation Iceland also suffered failures of cereal crops and people moved away from a grain-based diet.