Out of the Crater : : Chronicles of a Volcanologist /

Out of the Crater : : Chronicles of a Volcanologist / / Richard V. Fisher.

Volcanologists venture to treacherous volcanoes the world over in the pursuit of their science. They work around craters of boiling magma and amidst smoke, flames, scorched rocks, and clouds of noxious gases--balancing personal risk against advancing knowledge about one of nature's most dangero...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Fisher, Richard V.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1998
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.) :; 28 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgment
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • Chapter 2. Bikini and the Atom Bomb
  • Chapter 3. The Beginnings of a Career
  • Chapter 4. Central Oregon: Tuff, Fossils, and Lava
  • Chapter 5. Puu Hou, Hawaii: Solitary Isolation
  • Chapter 6. Volcanoes and Water
  • Chapter 7. Mount Pelee, Martinique
  • Chapter 8. Soufriere, St. Vincent
  • Chapter 9. Volcanoes in Europe
  • Chapter 10. Mount St. Helens
  • Chapter 11. Mount Vesuvius
  • Chapter 12. El Chichon, Southern Mexico
  • Chapter 13. Calderas
  • Chapter 14. Communist China
  • Chapter 15. Italy and Ignimbrite
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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