A new edition of Peter Francis's highly respected text, reflecting new research findings and new eruptions. Preserving the immense clarity and engaging humour of the first edition including a new chapter on hazards and risk mitigation.
A new edition of Peter Francis's highly respected text, reflecting new research findings and new eruptions. Preserving the immense clarity and engaging humour of the first edition including a new chapter on hazards and risk mitigation.
The late Dr Peter Francis was Professor of Volcanology in the Department of Earth sciences at the Open University. Dr Clive Oppenheimer is a University Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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'Oppenheimer does not shy away from difficult concepts, and as part of a more modern treatment of magma vesiculation (bubble formation) he presents a skilful precis of Yuri Siezin's catastrophe theory model, whereby a slight change in the pressure driving up a conduit can trigger an enormous change in magma ascent velocity.' Times Higher Education Supplement, April 2004.
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