Volcanoes / Philippe Bourseiller ; Jacques Durieux ; [translated from the French by David Baker].

Author:: Bourseiller, Philippe
Published:: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Physical Description:: 413 pages : color illustrations ; 38 cm
Additional Creators:: Durieux, Jacques

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Contents:

BELIEFS AND LEGENDS: Of gods and volcanoes -- Italy: at the foot of Vesuvius -- CEREMONIES: Indonesia and its volcanoes -- Festival of Kesodo, Tengger, Java -- The ceremony of Labuhan -- THE BIRTH OF VOLCANOLOGY: The suicide of Empedocles, or the evolution of thinking about volcanoes -- SURVEILLANCE AND OBSERVATIONS: The eruption of Laki Volcano, Iceland -- The East African Rift -- Laboratory volcanoes: observations -- ASSESSING THE RISKS: Volcanic risks -- Two decades to understand: Mount Saint Helens, Nevado del Ruiz, and Pinatubo -- COEXISTING WITH VOLCANOES: When volcanoes threaten airplanes -- Japan: technology at the foot of volcanoes -- Vesuvius: the catastrophe of tomorrow -- ERUPTIONS IN ICELAND AND REUNION: Chronicle of an eruption in Iceland -- Reunion: Piton de la Fournaise -- ERUPTIONS IN VANUATU AND ECUADOR: Vanuatu: an expedition to Benbow Crater (Ambrym Caldera) -- Volcanic crisis in Ecuador -- THE SCIENCE OF VOLCANOES: The Earth's structure -- Volcanoes and accretion -- Volcanoes and subduction -- Volcanoes and hot spots -- Diverse magmas -- Volcanoes and eruptions.

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ISBN:

0810916991

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Includes index.

Source of Acquisition:

Hazleton copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund, 2003.

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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