Volcanoes

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"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."--Jacket.

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Title Statements

Full title :Volcanoes. / Peter Francis, Clive Oppenheimer.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

Notes

Revised edition of: Volcanoes : a planetary perspective / Peter Francis. c1993.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 521 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0199254699, 9780199254699
oclc:ocm53030792
LC Classification:QE522
Dewey Decimal:551.21

The basics: Isotopes and green cheese -- Keeping planets cool: volcanoes, hotspots, and plate tectonics -- Four classic eruptions -- Magma-the hot stuff -- Types of volcanic activity -- Lava flows -- Pyroclastic eruptions: bubbles, bangs, columns, and currents -- What goes up must come down: pyroclastic fall deposits -- Pyroclastic Currents and ignimbrites associated with plinian eruptions -- Super-eruptions, super-volcanoes and calderas -- Debris avalanches and flows: magic carpets and muck -- Volcanoes as landscape forms -- Submarine volcanism -- Extraterrestial volcanoes --Eruptions and climate -- Volcano monitoring -- Reducing volcanic risks.