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Worlds on Fire

Categorie	Algemeen Natuur
Boeknummer	#367197
Titel	Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io
Auteur	Frankel, Charles
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0521803934
ISBN13	9780521803939
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w and colour photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Worlds on Fire takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the mightiest volcanoes in the solar system. From Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and Mount Etna in Sicily, it leaps to the lava fields and rilles of the Moon, retraces the historic footsteps of the Apollo astronauts and describes new volcanic provinces to explore. The three largest volcanoes of Mars - Olympus Mons, Alba Patera and Arsia Mons - are profiled, amongst others. The strange world of Venus, revealed by radar, opens our perspective of volcanism to features never seen before: pancake domes of puffed-up lava, and gigantic fault rings sitting over buried magma chambers. The tour of the solar system ends with the only current eruptions outside Earth: the spectacular volcanoes of Io - Jupiter's fiery moon. This highly readable 2005 book, illustrated with the most recent imagery from spacecraft, will appeal to general readers, and students of Earth and planetary sciences.
Pagina's	396
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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