| Description |
viii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. The Basics: Isotopes and Green Cheese -- 2. Keeping Planets Cool: Volcanoes, Hot-spots, and Plate Tectonics -- 3. Basically Basalt -- 4. Four Classic Eruptions -- 5. Magma - Hot Stuff -- 6. Types of Volcanic Activity -- 7. Lava Flows -- 8. Bubbles and Bangs: The Mechanisms of Pyroclastic Eruptions -- 9. Pyroclastic Fall Deposits -- 10. Pyroclastic Flows: Ignimbrites -- 11. Pyroclastic Flows: Surges -- 12. Pyroclastic Flows: nue'es ardentes -- 13. Debris Flows: Magic Carpets and Muck -- 14. Caldera Complexes and Complex Calderas -- 15. Submarine Volcanism -- 16. Volcanoes as Landscape Forms -- 17. The Golden Glow of Volcanic Winter -- 18. Extraterrestrial Volcanism -- Index |
| Analysis |
Volcanoes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Volcanoes.
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| LC no. |
92029756 |
| ISBN |
0198540337 (paperback) |
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0198544529 |
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