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368 pages : 20 cm, Volcano is an emotive word, often romanticized. Many people, thinking about volcanoes, consider them thrilling, even glamorous. Etria and Vesuvius are well-known examples, and the momentous destruction of Pompeii is one of the oldest disaster stories in history. But what is a volcano? And where, how and why does volcanism exist? Are eruptions predictable, and how dangerous, or even beneficial, are they? How do they affect the environment and influence climatic conditions? This is a clear and detailed book which fully answers these questions and describes the volcanic phenomenon in all its aspects. With eyewitness accounts, ranging from Vesuvius in A.D. 79 (the younger Pliny) to Krakatoa in 1883, and other well-documented terrestrial and sub-marine instances, Dr. Peter Francis has produced an up-to-date and absorbing study, often surprising in its conclusions and always thought-provoking. - Back cover, Includes index, Volcanoes in their global setting : plate tectonics -- Three classic eruptions -- Types of volcano eruption -- Volcanic rocks : lavas -- Volcanic rocks : pyroclastic fall deposits -- Volcanic rocks : pyroclastic flows -- Volcanic landscape forms -- S

Author

Francis, Peter, 1944-1999

Publisher

Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin Books

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140218978

Subjects

Science, Stem

Updated

2026-03-24