Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science

Volcanoes have destroyed and killed throughout history, but we have never known much about them. Now a group of brave scientists are working to understand the actual conditions that cause eruptions, how to predict them, and what we can do, if anything, to temper their destructiveness. Thompson, a Time magazine correspondent, takes us from the May 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state through new concentrated efforts to construct a w...

By Dick Thompson
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Paperback Edition edition (January 18, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312286686
ISBN-13: 978-0312286682
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 776362
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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Being an on-off volcano geek since my childhood, parts of this book quite honestly read like a (thrilling and excellent) film script. The scientific, personal and political details are all explored, day by day in the case of St. Helens and Pinatubo.

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