Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Rosen Central, [2012]
©2012
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781448860081 (library binding), 1448860083 (library binding), 1448860083 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
What Are Volcanoes? -- The Formation of Volcanoes -- Inside a Volcano -- The Eruption that Grounded Europe -- Pompeii : Trapped in Time -- Skaptárjökul -- The Largest Eruption in History -- Worst Eruption of the 20th Century -- The Destruction of Armero -- Mt. Pinatubo, Phillipines, 1991 -- Soufrière Hills, Montserrat, 1995 -- Soufrière Hills, St. Vincent, 1902 -- Looking to the future/volcano science -- Timeline -- Glossary
Looks at the science of volcanoes and volcanic eruptions, highlighting such major disasters as Tambora and Montserrat