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Volcanoes, encounters through the ages, David M. Pyle

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Volcanoes, encounters through the ages, David M. Pyle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Volcanoes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

David M. Pyle

Sub title

encounters through the ages

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction. Volcanoes and the heat of the earth -- Plate tectonics -- Oceanic ridges and continental rifts -- A volcanic arc -- Measuring volcanoes -- Volcanoes in early accounts. Hades -- Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean -- The Mediterranean -- The sixteenth century -- Athanasius Kircher -- Vesuvius awakes. December 1631 -- Etna, 1669 -- William Hamilton -- 1817 eruption -- 1834 eruption -- 1906 eruption -- Vesuvius and popular culture -- The first volcanic photograph -- The origins of lava. Polygonal rocks -- Melting rocks -- Field examples -- Europeans explore the world's volcanoes. Pirates and burning islands -- Eighteenth-century explorers -- Nineteenth-century natural historians -- Hawaii -- World-changing eruptions. Appearing and disappearing islands -- Jorullo and Parícutin -- Laki, 1783 -- Tambora, 1815 -- Krakatoa, 1883 -- Living with volcanoes. Montserrat -- St. Vincent -- May 1902 -- The destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique -- Detecting the next volcanic eruption. Santorini, Greece -- Why can't we predict volcanic eruptions? -- What if there was a supervolcanic eruption? -- Gazetteer of eruptions

Target audience

adult

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Encounters through the ages

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