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999			_c148792 _d148792
020			_a9780195106657
040			_cCUS
082			_a551.21 _bSIG/M
100			_aSigurdsson, Haraldur
245		0	_aMelting the earth: the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions/ _cHaraldur Sigurdsson
260			_aOxford: _bOxford University Press, _c1999.
300			_aix, 260 p. : _bill., maps ; _c27 cm.
505			_aThe 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.
650			_aVolcanism
650			_aVolcanoes
942			_cWB16