No apparent danger : the true story of volcanic disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz / Victoria Bruce.

By:

Bruce, Victoria

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2001.Description: x, 239 p., [8] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cmISBN:

0732271002

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DDC classification:

363.34/95/098613 21

Summary: On 14 January 1993, a team of scientists descended into the crater of Galeras, a restless Andean volcano in southern Columbia, for a day of field research. On that same day nine of these people died instantly when the volcano erupted, its crater exploding in a barrage of burning rocks. [Book Cover]

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Includes index.

On 14 January 1993, a team of scientists descended into the crater of Galeras, a restless Andean volcano in southern Columbia, for a day of field research. On that same day nine of these people died instantly when the volcano erupted, its crater exploding in a barrage of burning rocks. [Book Cover]

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