Volcanoes [electronic resource] : eruptions and other volcanic hazards
A comprehensive study of volcanoes that discusses historical disasters, how the threat of volcanic hazards is reduced, plate tectonics, types of magma, eruptions and landforms, classification of igneous rocks, and prediction efforts
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Facts On File ,
c2008
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| Series: | Hazardous earth
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Plate tectonics, volcanoes, and igneous rocks
- 2. Volcanic hazards
- 3. Reducing the threat from volcanic hazards
- 4. Examples of historical volcanic disasters
- 5. Examples of volcanic disasters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- 6. Massive global volcanism, volcanic winters, and kimberlite eruptions
- 7. Mass extinctions and catastrophes