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1) 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
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Volcanologist and filmmaker Clive Oppenheimer offers here a seemingly impossible tour, showing readers places difficult to access, even before one considers climbing a volcano. Readers learn of historic voyages to these enigmatic places and travel alongside Oppenheimer, peering from the crater's edge with assorted monitoring devices, climbing toward the summit to compare the volcano itself to images captured safely from space, hunting for the far-flung...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Something is stirring deep inside. A whisper hisses through its magma chamber. Gases gurgle. Steam spits out. Bubbles boil and pop. Suddenly, it's time to wake up! This lively book is the perfect pick for budding vulcanologists--or anyone who loves things that go...KABOOM!
7) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
How is a volcano like a soft drink? To visit the largest known volcano would you need a submarine or a spaceship? How fast can a pyroclastic flow go? True or False?: Volcanoes is here with answers to these questions and more!
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando los Supergenios tienen una pregunta, ¡NO PARAN HASTA ENCONTRAR LA RESPUESTA! ¿Sabías que las montañas se forman cuando las placas tectónicas de la tierra se arrugan? ¿Conoces la razón por la que cada vez hay más incendios? ¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué si hay tsunamis en el mar no puede haberlos en un río? Alejo, Mar, Teo y Bruna son unos niños muy curiosos... Ahora se han empeñado en aprender cosas sobre los volcanes,...
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 7
Publisher
Bear Grylls Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Charlie loves a challenge he's addicted to video games and an expert at figuring our how to get to the next level. But sometimes the real world can seem a bit dull. Then he finds himself on the slopes of an active volcano, with red-hot lava heading his way! There's no time to be bored with Bear as his guide out of danger.
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