Volcanoes : a planetary perspective.
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TextPublication details: Oxford, [England] ; Melbourne : Clarendon Press, 1993Description: 443 p. : ill., mapsISBN: - 0198540337
- 0198544529
- 551.21
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| 551.21 VOL Volcanism and climate change : AGU special report. | 551.21 VOL Volcanism and climate change : AGU special report. | 551.21 VOL Volcanoes : crucibles of change / | 551.21 VOL Volcanoes : a planetary perspective. | 551.2109 BOE Volcanoes in human history : the far-reaching effects of major eruptions / | 551.21094 VOL Volcanoes of Europe / | 551.2109598 SIM Krakatau 1883: the volcanic eruption and its effects. |
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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