Volcanoes. Peter Francis, Clive Oppenheimer

Rev. edition of: Volcanoes : a planetary perspective/ Peter Francis. c1993

Includes bibliographical references and index

-- The basics: Isotopes and green cheese -- Keeping planets cool: volcanoes, hotspots, 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 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 -- Extraterrestial volcanoes --Eruptions and climate -- Volcano monitoring -- Reducing volcanic risks

"The book is designed primarily for undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including geology, earth sciences, geography, environmental sciences, and planetary sciences. It is an equally valuable source for volcanologists, senior scientists in other disciplines, and scientifically-trained volcano enthusiasts."--BOOK JACKET