Melting the earth : the history of ideas on volcanic eruptions /
Chronicles humankind's attempt to understand why volcanoes errupt, and looks at how our conception of volcanoes has changed.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- The heat below
- From the Stone Age to volcano myths
- The Bronze Age eruption of Thera and lost Atlantis
- Subterranean wind and internal combustion
- The Plinian eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79
- The chimneys of Hell
- Renaissance and Earth science
- Burning mountains and cooling stars
- Columnar basalt and the Neptunists
- The first field volcanologists
- Baron Münchausen in the volcano
- Chemical reactions as the source of heat in the Earth
- From fluid to solid Earth
- The melting by decrease in pressure
- Radioactive heat and convection
- Source of magmas.