Orem Library

"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.

Explains how volcanoes form and how volcanic eruptions occur, and describes the effect of different kinds of eruptions on people and the environment.

A discussion of volcanoes, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant volcanic events from history.

A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square houses and the women in round ones.

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...

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.

Piedra caliente fundida desde el centro de nuestro planeta es forzada a viajar por las grietas en la corteza de la Tierra hasta explotar, violenta e inesperadamente, en una erupción que puede durar meses y a veces años. Únete a la aventura para aprender más acerca de los volcanes, uno de los fenómenos más espectaculares de la naturaleza.

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!

Presents a history of the discovery and exploration of hydrothermal vents and undersea volcanoes, and tells how these scientific expeditions help researchers understand marine ecology.