Volcanoes : eruptions and other volcanic hazards /
Volcanoes eruptions and other volcanic hazards [electronic resource] :
Timothy Kusky
- New York : Facts on File, c2008
- xvii, 152 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. 1 online resource (xvii, 152 p.) : ill., maps
- The hazardous earth .
- The hazardous earth .
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index
Plate tectonics, volcanoes, and igneous rocks -- Volcanic hazards -- Reducing the threat from volcanic hazards -- Examples of historical volcanic disasters -- Examples of volcanic disasters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Massive global volcanism, volcanic winters, and kimberlite eruptions -- Mass extinctions and catastrophes