Living Mountains: How And Why Volcanoes Erupt
Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1937, Jacques Kornprobst graduated from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and was a lecturer there until 1972. He has taught geology topics at several universities, including Paris University and Clermont-Ferrand University. His research interests include the mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry of mantle rocks rocks he has hunted around the world. He has also observed and collected mantle rocks in the French submersible Nautile.Kornprobst has authored and coauthored more than one hundred scientific papers and several books. He served as chairman of the French Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography and Geological Society of France. Currently he is the chairman of the scientific committee at Vulcania, a volcanological park near Clermont-Ferrand. In 1999 he received the distinguished Legion of Honor cross. Christine Laverne is a senior lecturer of geosiences at Paul C??zanne University in France. Her area of research is the petrology and mineralogy of oceanic hydrothermal systems. As a participant in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, she has sailed aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution, operated by Texas A&M; University. Her hobbies include hiking and watercolor painting. She has written numerous scientific papers and has illustrated watercolor books about Normandy and Venice.