Melting the earth: the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions/
Sigurdsson, Haraldur
Melting the earth: the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions/ Haraldur Sigurdsson - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. - ix, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
The heat below --
From the Stone Age to volcano myths --
The Bronze Age eruption of Thera and lost Atlantis --
Subterranean wind and internal combustion --
The Plinian eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 --
The chimneys of Hell --
Renaissance and Earth science --
Burning mountains and cooling stars --
Columnar basalt and the Neptunists --
The first field volcanologists --
Baron Münchausen in the volcano --
Chemical reactions as the source of heat in the Earth --
From fluid to solid Earth --
The melting by decrease in pressure --
Radioactive heat and convection --
Source of magmas.
9780195106657
Volcanism
Volcanoes
551.21 / SIG/M
Melting the earth: the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions/ Haraldur Sigurdsson - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. - ix, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
The heat below --
From the Stone Age to volcano myths --
The Bronze Age eruption of Thera and lost Atlantis --
Subterranean wind and internal combustion --
The Plinian eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 --
The chimneys of Hell --
Renaissance and Earth science --
Burning mountains and cooling stars --
Columnar basalt and the Neptunists --
The first field volcanologists --
Baron Münchausen in the volcano --
Chemical reactions as the source of heat in the Earth --
From fluid to solid Earth --
The melting by decrease in pressure --
Radioactive heat and convection --
Source of magmas.
9780195106657
Volcanism
Volcanoes
551.21 / SIG/M