volcanoes

A geological explanation of volcanic formation and activity and a discussion of famous volcanoes around the world, their history, legends, and specific eruptions.

Discusses volcanoes and the way they erupt, especially a number of North American ones, including Mount Saint Helens.

Discusses the formation, types, and locations of volcanoes and describes the eruptions of Par?cutin, Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mont Pel?e, and Mount St. Helens.

Describes the technology involved in predicting volcanic eruptions.

Describes the characteristics of volcanoes, why and how they erupt, and how eruptions are predicted. Also discusses famous volcanoes throughout the world and describes the May, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Describes the volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens, and the close scientific monitoring concerned with recurrence, ecological impact, and weather changes.

Traces a year of dramatic global change in the aftermath of a massive early nineteenth-century Indonesian volcanic eruption that disrupted weather patterns and triggered food shortages, religious revivals, migrations, and a typhus epidemic.

A near-future tale finds a popular theme park opened on the site of ancient Pompeii on the eve of the 2,000th anniversary of the eruption of Vesuvius and threatened by a possible repeat eruption and terrorist attack.