The volcano adventure guide /
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| Author / Creator: | Lopes, Rosaly M. C., 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. ©2005 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954605 |
| Summary: | This guide contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes and how to prepare for an exploratory trip that avoids volcanic dangers, the book presents guidelines to visiting 42 different volcanoes around the world. It is filled with practical information that includes tour itineraries, maps, transportation details, and warnings of possible non-volcanic dangers. Three appendices direct the reader to a wealth of further volcano resources in a volume that will fascinate amateur enthusiasts and professional volcanologists alike. Rosaly Lopes is a planetary geology and volcanology specialist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. In addition to her curatorial and research work, she has lectured extensively in England and Brazil and written numerous popular science articles. She received a Latinas in Science Award from the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nacional in 1991 and since 1992, has been a co-organizer of the United Nations/European Space Agency/The Planetary Society yearly conferences on Basic Science for the Benefit of Developing Countries. Rosaly Lopes comments on the volcanic eruption beneath Iceland s Eyjafjallajokull glacier - click here. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-344) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511113161 9780511113161 0511112653 9780511112652 9780511535567 0511535562 128041488X 9781280414886 9786610414888 6610414882 0511181582 9780511181580 0511198418 9780511198410 0511300107 9780511300103 0521554535 9780521554534 |