TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sigurdsson, Haraldur
TI  - Melting the earth: the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions
SN  - 9780195106657
U1  - 551.21 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Volcanism
KW  - Volcanoes
N1  - 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
ER  -