Fire and Mud
Subtitle: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
Contributors: Christopher G. Newhall (Editor); Raymundo S. Punongbayan (Editor)
Edition: Har/Dsk edition
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1126
ISBN-13: 9780295975856
Subjects: Geology & the lithosphere; Vulcanology & seismology; Volcanoes; Science; Nature/Ecology; Asia - General; Natural Disasters; Earth Sciences - Geology; Lahars; Philippines; Pinatubo, Mount (Philippines); Pinatubo, Mount, Region
Description: "Fire and Mud is a comprehensive document of the awakening of a volcano after a 500-year sleep. Its 62 technical papers tell the scientific and human story of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the events surrounding it." "In this impressive volume, volcanologists and other experts from ten countries explore the precursors, processes, and products of the eruption, as well as record-setting erosion and lahars (volcanic mudflows) that followed."--BOOK JACKET.