Volcanoes in Human History
Subtitle: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions.
Contributors: Robert D. Ballard (Foreword)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691050812
Subjects: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena; Geology & the lithosphere; Human geography; Vulcanology & seismology; Science; Volcanoes; Nature; Science/Mathematics; World - General; Earth Sciences - Seismology & Volcanism; Earthquakes & Volcanoes; Earth Sciences; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Science / Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences - Geology
First sentence: WHEN OUR ANCESTORS realized that their world was not a flat disk resting on the back of a giant turtle-that instead, the earth is a spheroid whirling through space in orbit around the sun-they began to comprehend the nature of the planet that is our home.