Volcanoes : a planetary perspective.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford, [England] ; Melbourne : Clarendon Press, 1993Description: 443 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

0198540337
0198544529

DDC classification:

551.21

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	551.21 VOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006385547

Includes bibliographies and index

The basics : isotopes and green cheese -- Keeping planets cool : volcanoes, hot-spots, and plate tectonics -- Basically basalt -- Four classic eruptions -- Magma : the hot stuff -- Types of volcanic activity -- Lava flows -- Bubbles and bangs : the mechanisms of pyroclastic erruptions -- Pyroclastic fall deposits -- Pyroclastic flows : ignimbrites -- Pyroclastic flows : surges -- Pyroclastic flows : nuees ardentes -- Debris flows : magic carpets and muck -- Caldera complexes and complex calderas -- Submarine volcanism -- Volcanoes as landscape forms -- The golden glow of volcanic winter -- Extraterrestial volcanism

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