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The vapours of one entrance to Hades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Toni M. Cross  and
Sheldon Aaronson
Toni M. Cross
Affiliation:
American Research Institute in Turkey, Iran Caddesi 29A, Kavaklidere, Ankara. Turkey
Sheldon Aaronson
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Queens College, Flushing. NY 11367–0904, USA
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Abstract

The Lake Nyos disaster of 1986, when gases blew up in a Camerounian lake and the resulting gas and water vapour killed hundreds of people, prompted this examination of the effect of gases coming from underground, on a smaller but steadier scale, from a place that was reputed to be one of the entrances to Hades in ancient times.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 234 , March 1988 , pp. 88 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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