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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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103000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
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Volcanoes have fascinated-and terrified-people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. In this book, John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early years of volcanology and its "father," Thomas Jaggar. Jaggar was the youngest of five scientists to investigate the explosion of Mount Pelee in Martinique, which leveled the entire city of St. Pierre and killed its entire population in two minutes. This explosion changed science forever, and Jaggar became obsessed with understanding the force of nature that could do this. Falling in love with a widowed schoolteacher who shared his passion, Jaggar devoted his life to studying volcanic activity and the mysteries beneath the earth's surface. From their precarious perch, this dynamic husband and wife duo would discover a way to predict volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, promote geothermal energy, and theorize new ways to study the ocean bottom. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Read by Tom Perkins. |
| Summary |
Documents the fifty-year career of Thomas Jaggar, the Harvard-educated volcano science pioneer who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, to share insights into his findings about massive volcanoes in such regions as Yellowstone, Alaska, and Hawaii. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Jaggar, Thomas Augustus, 1871-1953.
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Geologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Volcanologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Volcanology -- History.
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Volcanoes -- Hawaii.
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Volcanic eruptions.
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Volcanic eruptions. |
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Audiobooks.
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Perkins, Tom (Sound engineer), narrator.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Dvorak, John (John J.) Last volcano : a man, a romance, and the quest to understand nature's most magnificent fury [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2015] 9781494517151 (NjBwBT)bl2016027205 (OCoLC)929702341 |
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9781494597153 : $49.95 |
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1494597152 : $49.95 |
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