What's so hot about volcanoes?
By: Wendell A. Duffield ; illustrations by Bronze Black
Publisher: Mountain Press Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Missoula, Mont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780878425747
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Volcanism; Volcanoes
Description: 89 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 85) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heating up; title: What's so hot about volcanoes?; title: Earth's internal heater; title: Blowing off steam; title: Where do volcanoes form?; title: Volcanoes at plate collision zones; title: Volcanoes at spreading zones; title: Volcanoes at sliding boundaries; title: Volcanoes far from plate boundaries; title: Why does some magma flow and some magma blow?; title: The family of volcanoes; title: Cinder cones; title: Shield volcanoes; title: Flood basalts; title: Stratovolcanoes; title: Lava domes; title: Violent caldera-forming pyroclastic eruptions; title: What happens when molten rock meets water?; title: When magma meets groundwater; title: When lava meets surface water; title: Can eruptions be predicted?; title: Are volcanoes our friends or enemies?; title: Cooling down; title: Appendix: where to explore young volcanoes in the United States.