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VOLCANOES OUR BEST FRIENDS
Geologist Says Without Them We Would Have No Oceans or Carbon Dioxide.
KATMAN ERUPTION DESCRIBED
Most Tremendous Volcanic Explosion of History Passed Unnoticed Because It Was So Far From Centers of Civilization.
Washington.—It might be a surprise to many to be told that the fire-spitting, lava-spouting, earth-rocking volcano is one of mankind's best friends rather than his arch enemy, but such is the surprising declaration which was explained to the conference on geography of the National Education association in Boston recently.
The most tremendous volcanic eruption of history, that of Mount Katmai in Alaska in 1912, was described in this connection by Dr. Robert Griggs, leader of several parties sent to the scene of the cataclysm by the National Geographic society, and who discovered the valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai's neighbor wonder of nature.
Mankind's debt to the volcano has been more fully recognized by results of recent researches, says a bulletin of the society describing the upheaval. Without volcanoes, it is now believed, there would be no oceans, and to volcanoes we are indebted for carbon dioxide, without which human life could not exist.
Katmai Explosion Unnoticed. 