Volcanoes
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 December 2003
- ISBN 9780199254699
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages536 pages
- Size 243x188x29 mm
- Weight 1003 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones and line figures 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong 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.
'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.
Table of Contents:
The Basics: isotopes and green cheese
Keeping planets cool: volcanoes, hot-spots, and plate tectonics
Four classic eruptions
Magma - the hot stuff
Types of volcanic activity
Lava Flows
Pyroclastic eruptions: bubbles, bangs, columns, and currents
What goes up must come down: pyroclastic fall deposits
Pyroclastic currents from collapsing domes and transient eruptions
Pyroclastic currents and ignimbrites associated with plinian eruptions
Super-eruptions, super-volcanoes and calderas
Debris avalanches and flows: magic carpets and muck
Volcanoes as landscape forms
Submarine volcanism
Extraterrestrial volcanoes
Eruptions and climate
Volcano monitoring
Reducing volcanic risks
