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A little over 200 years ago, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland sent a huge toxic cloud across Western Europe. It was the greatest natural disaster to hit modern Britain, killing many thousands - but it has been almost forgotten by history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6276291.stm
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This certainly seems to add some credability to the flood basalt theory of the K-T mass extinction eh?
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When a killer cloud hit Britain
Submitted by senua on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 22:01.A little over 200 years ago, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland sent a huge toxic cloud across Western Europe. It was the greatest natural disaster to hit modern Britain, killing many thousands - but it has been almost forgotten by history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6276291.stm