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.