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Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, including how it was formed, which wildlife can be found there today, and how it is affected by environmental issues."--Provided by publisher.
6) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of volcanoes, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant volcanic events from history.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 660
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and indeed of other planets and moons too, encompasses much more than just volcanoes themselves. On a planetary scale, volcanism is an indispensable heat release mechanism, which on Earth allows the conditions for life. It releases gases into the atmosphere and produces enormous...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system's strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes. Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of...
12) Ashfall
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tanglewood
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Earthqukes and volcanoes explains what triggers earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, decribes where on Earth they are most likely to occur, tells how they happen and explains how examining disasters of the past can make people safer in the future.
14) Hill of fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1971.
Language
English
Description
Every day is the same for Pablo's father. Then one afternoon the ground growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A volcano is erupting in the middle of his cornfield!
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fire and Ice is an exploration of the Solar System's volcanoes, from the highest peaks of Mars to the intensely inhospitable surface of Venus and the red-hot summits of Io, to the coldest, seemingly dormant icy carapaces of Enceladus and Europa, an unusual look at how these cosmic features are made, and whether such active planetary systems might host life.
18) Ashen winter
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than six months after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, Alex and Darla retrace their steps to Iowa hoping to find Alex's parents and bring them to the tenuous safety of Illinois, but the journey is ever more perilous as the remaining communities fight to the death for food and power.
20) Sunrise
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nearly a year after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, survival has become harder than ever and Alex and Darla must risk everything to try to create a community that can withstand the ongoing disaster.
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