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Volcanoes

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  • Description

    "The book is designed primarily for undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including geology, earth sciences, geography, environmental sciences, and planetary sciences. It is an equally valuable source for volcanologists, senior scientists in other disciplines, and scientifically-trained volcano enthusiasts"--Book jacket.

  • Place
    New York, United States Oxford, England, United Kingdom
  • Other Id

    QE522 FRA (Library of Congress Call Number)

    85897 (Cat ID)

    85774 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

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    Catalogue

    • Object Type

      book

    • Name/Title
      Volcanoes
    • Primary Maker

      Clive Oppenheimer (Author)

       Peter Francis (Author)

    • Contributor/Publisher
      Oxford University Press
    • Place
      New York, United States Oxford, England, United Kingdom
    • Date
      2004?
    • Physical Description

      x, 521 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

    • ISBN/ISSN
      9780199254699
    • Level of Current Record
      Bib record
    • Member Object

      1 item in this collection. View all items.

    • Edition/State/Version
      Second edition
    • Subject Category

      Volcanoes

      Planetary volcanoes

    • Content
      1. The basics: isotopes and green cheese
      2. Keeping planets cool: volcanoes, hotspots, and plate tectonics
      3. Four classic eruptions
      4. Magma - the hot stuff
      5. Types of volcanic activity
      6. Lava flows
      7. Pyroclastic eruptions: bubbles, bangs, columns, and currents
      8. What goes up must come down: pyroclastic fall deposits
      9. Pyroclastic currents from collapsing domes and transient eruptions
      10. Pyroclastic currents and ignimbrites associated with plinian eruptions
      11. Super-eruptions, super-volcanoes and calderas
      12. Debris avalanches and flows: magic carpets and muck
      13. Volcanoes as landscape forms
      14. Submarine volcanism
      15. Extraterrestrial volcanoes
      16. Eruptions and climate
      17. Volcano monitoring
      18. Reducing volcanic risks.
    • Public Access Text

      First published 1993. Revised edition of: Volcanoes : a planetary perspective / Peter Francis. Includes bibliographical references and index.

    • Collection Type
      Reading Room
    • Copyright
      All rights reserved
    • Last Update
      05 Dec 2024

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