Format:
Book
Title:
Eruption! : volcanoes and the science of saving lives / text by Elizabeth Rusch ; photographs by Tom Uhlman.
Author:
Rusch, Elizabeth.
Call Number:
j363.3495 RUSCH
Publisher, Date:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.
Description:
76 p. : col. ill., col. maps. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Summary:
An account of the work of volcanologist Andy Lockhart, John Pallister, and their team describes their life risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.
Series:
Scientists in the field
Scientists in the field.
Subjects:
Volcanic eruptions -- Juvenile literature.
Other Author:
Uhlman, Tom, ill.
Contents:
Sleeping giant -- Never again -- Mount Pinatubo -- To evacuate or not to evacuate? -- Volcano trainging camp -- How do you watch a volcano you can't see? -- Mount Merapi's next move -- The mystery of the missing ash -- What happened here? -- Living and working in the shadow of a volcano -- Volcanic volcabulary.
ISBN:
9780547503509
0547503504