Volcanoes in Human History
Subtitle: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions
Contributors: Robert D. Ballard (Foreword)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691118383
Subjects: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena; Vulcanology & seismology; Nature; Earth Sciences - Seismology & Volcanism; Nature/Ecology; World - General; Nature / Field Guide Books; Earthquakes & Volcanoes; Earth Sciences; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Science / Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences - Geology; Natural Disasters
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.