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Duffield, Wendell A

Chasing lava: A geologists' adventures at the Hawaiin volcano observatory/ Wendell A. Duffield. - Mountana: Mountain, 2003. - vii, 171 p. 23 cm.

A Farm Boy's Image of Hawai'i
A Volcano Observatory Is Born
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Grows
Mingo Leads the Way
Our New Home
Focusing In: The Hawaiian Islands and Their String of Old Neighbors
Taking the Pulse of Kilauea
Are You on the Level?
A Loaf of Bread, a lug of Wine, a Geodimeter, and Thou
You're Right! That IS a Snake!!
Yellow Runoff
Water Beds and Magma Beds
Tree Molds and Leg Molds
A Suffocating Experience
How Fast Can You Run?
Living off the Land
Camping at Halape
Swords into Plowshares, Spears into Pruning Hooks
Disharmonious Tremor and Premature Eruption
Tainted Lava
The Dance of the Plates
Why I Cruise Parking Lots
The South Flank Story
Mingo Goes Home
Epilogue: Sharing the Fruits of Maturation
AGallery of Directors andScientists-in-Charge of the Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory, 1912-2002
Additional Readings for the Technically Inclined
Index

ISBN: 0878424628

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kilauea Volcano (Hawaii)
Volcanism -- Hawaii -- Kilauea Volcano.
Volcanism.

Dewey Class. No.: 551.21 / DUF/C