Out of the crater : chronicles of a volcanologist

著者

• Fisher, Richard V. (Richard Virgil)

書誌事項

Out of the crater : chronicles of a volcanologist

Richard V. Fisher

Princeton University Press, c1999

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In this text, Richard Fisher blends autobiography with science to the basics of volcanology and to the volcanoes he has studied. Following his travels from descending into the steaming crater of the Soufriere Volcano, to his research on lava flows on the desolate shores of the Island of Hawwaii, and his struggles to understand the explosion at Mount St Helens. The text involves his work on pyroclastic flows and surges - the hurricanes of gas, molten lava, and volcanic debris. Fisher tells of a historic scientific problem at Mount Pelee, where 29,000 people were killed in a pyroclastic flow. And also offers a volcanologist's view of the explosion of Mount Vesuvius that devestated Pompeii and Herculaneum. He writes about the cultural rewards and the challenges of conducting isolated researches in countries as Argentina, Mexico and China.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA39465491
• ISBN:
  • 0691002266
• LCCN: 98017838
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Princeton, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: 179 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QE22.F44
  • DC21 : 551.2/1/092
  • DC21 : B
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Fisher, Richard V. (Richard Virgil), 1928-
  • LCSH : Volcanologists -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Volcanoes