Super Volcanoes

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An exhilarating, time-travelling journey to the solar system’s strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes.

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Description

Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over. Despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of our planet.

Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earth-bound and otherwise, it explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews describes the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Travelling from Hawaii, Tanzania, Yellowstone and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus and Mars, Andrews explores cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.

Additional information

Weight 0.528 kg
Dimensions 23.6 × 16 × 3 cm
Book_author

Andrews, Robin George

Publisher

W.W. Norton and Company

Imprint

W.W. Norton and Company

Cover

Hardback

Pages

336

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

551.21 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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