Discusses the causes and nature of volcanic eruptions and includes eyewitness accounts of major eruptions

Mountains of Fire: The Nature of Volcanoes

Science & Math

Decker, Robert W.

Decker, Barbara B.

Earth Sciences

Cambridge University Press

There are many factors that come together to form a volcano. This book explores the latest findings in the history of these magnificent forces of nature, and explores why eruptions occur when and where they do. Each chapter opens with an eye-witness account of a major volcanic eruption.

Mountains of Fire

In Volcanoes, Robert Decker and Barbara Decker provide a brief introduction to volcanology, the study of volcanoes, with the drama due such awesome phenomena. Dynamic prose and photographs and drawings enliven their discussion of the science behind the natural disaster. For the new edition, the authors have rigorously updated their material, adding new findings, a listing of Web sites carrying breaking news of volcanic activity around the world, and 50 new images. The third edition also contains descriptions of the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo Volcano, the eruptions near the city of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea in 1994, and an account of the devastating 1883 eruption of Krakatau in Indonesia written by the captain of a passing ship.

Volcanoes (A Series of books in geology)

W.H.Freeman

Collection of ten articles from Scientific American arranged under the headings: Volcanoes and plate tectonics; Volcanic products: Lava, ash, and bombs; Volcanic windows into the earth's interior.

Volcanoes and the Earth's Interior: Readings from Scientific American

Decker, Barbara

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Describes the formation of the three major types of volcanoes, rift, subduction, and hot spot, and uses their development to explain the basic concepts of earth science

Volcanoes