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Author:

Rusch, Elizabeth.

Title:

Eruption! : volcanoes and the science of saving lives / text by Elizabeth Rusch ; photographs by Tom Uhlman.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

76 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.

Subject:

Volcanic eruptions--Juvenile literature.
Volcanic eruptions.

Other Authors:

Uhlman, Tom. pht

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75) and index.

Contents:

Sleeping giant -- Never again -- Mount Pinatubo -- To evacuate or not to evacuate? -- Volcano training camp -- How do you watch a volcano you can't see? -- Mount Merapi's next move -- The mystery of the missing ash -- What happened here? -- Living and working in the shadow of a volcano -- Volcanic vocabulary.

Summary:

An account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart, John Pallister, and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.

Series:

Scientists in the field

ISBN:

0547503504 (hbk.)
9780547503509 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)808990387

LCCN:

2012034055

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