The Volcano Adventure Guide

Lopes, Rosaly

ISBN 10: 0521554535 / ISBN 13: 9780521554534

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005

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2005 Cambridge University Press. Pages are all clean tight and bright, no marks. Black cloth hardcover is clean and strong. Dust jacket is clean with very minor shelf rub against top edge of jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Volcano Adventure Guide
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521554535
• ISBN 13: 9780521554534
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good++
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++
• Weight: 54 ounces

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Synopsis

This guide contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes and how to prepare for an exploratory trip that avoids volcanic dangers, the book presents guidelines to visiting 42 different volcanoes around the world. It is filled with practical information that includes tour itineraries, maps, transportation details, and warnings of possible non-volcanic dangers. Three appendices direct the reader to a wealth of further volcano resources in a volume that will fascinate amateur enthusiasts and professional volcanologists alike.

Rosaly Lopes is a planetary geology and volcanology specialist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. In addition to her curatorial and research work, she has lectured extensively in England and Brazil and written numerous popular science articles. She received a Latinas in Science Award from the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nacional in 1991 and since 1992, has been a co-organizer of the United Nations/European Space Agency/The Planetary Society yearly conferences on Basic Science for the Benefit of Developing Countries.

Rosaly Lopes comments on the volcanic eruption beneath Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier - click here.

About the Author

Rosaly Lopes is an expert in planetary volcanism at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she studies volcanism on Earth, as well as other planets and moons. Using data returned by the Galileo spacecraft, Dr Lopes was responsible for the discovery of 71 previously unknown volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. She currently works on the Cassini mission, which is making observations of Saturn and its moons.