Volcanoes
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Bibliographic Information
Volcanoes
Oxford University Press, c2004
2nd ed. / Clive Oppenheimer
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Previous ed.: Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The impact of volcanic eruptions on the Earth's environment has been the source of many a debate and the cause of extensive research activities by leading academics worldwide. The new edition of Peter Francis's Volcanoes preserves the particular strengths of the orignal in its accessibility, immense clarity, engaging humour and excellent illustrations.
The book updates the original by reflecting on new research findings and new eruptions (such as that on Montserrat) as well as including a new chapter on volcanic hazards, which looks at the complex and scientific and sociological issues surrounding risk mitigation. In updating the planetary perspective of the book new co-author Clive Oppenheimer provides us with an insight into studies of Mars and Jupiter.
The book is designed primarily for undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including geology, Earth sciences, geography, environmental sciences and planetary sciences, yet, is an equally valuable source for volcanologists, senior scientists in other disciplines and scientifically-trained volcano enthusiasts.
Online Resource Centre
All the figures from the book will be available to download free from the companion web site.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Basics: isotopes and green cheese
- 2. Keeping planets cool: volcanoes, hot-spots, and plate tectonics
- 3. Four classic eruptions
- 4. Magma - the hot stuff
- 5. Types of volcanic activity
- 6. Lava Flows
- 7. Pyroclastic eruptions: bubbles, bangs, columns, and currents
- 8. What goes up must come down: pyroclastic fall deposits
- 9. Pyroclastic currents from collapsing domes and transient eruptions
- 10. Pyroclastic currents and ignimbrites associated with plinian eruptions
- 11. Super-eruptions, super-volcanoes and calderas
- 12. Debris avalanches and flows: magic carpets and muck
- 13. Volcanoes as landscape forms
- 14. Submarine volcanism
- 15. Extraterrestrial volcanoes
- 16. Eruptions and climate
- 17. Volcano monitoring
- 18. Reducing volcanic risks
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