Bibliograph

What's so hot about volcanoes?, Wendell A. Duffield ; illustrations by Bronze Black

Type

Label

What's so hot about volcanoes?, Wendell A. Duffield ; illustrations by Bronze Black

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 85) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What's so hot about volcanoes?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

720024426

Responsibility statement

Wendell A. Duffield ; illustrations by Bronze Black

Summary

Discusses reasons why volcanoes form where they do, their characteristics, and what happens when they erupt

Table Of Contents

Heating up -- What's so hot about volcanoes? -- Earth's internal heater -- Blowing off steam -- Where do volcanoes form? -- Volcanoes at plate collision zones -- Volcanoes at spreading zones -- Volcanoes at sliding boundaries -- Volcanoes far from plate boundaries -- Why does some magma flow and some magma blow? -- The family of volcanoes -- Cinder cones -- Shield volcanoes -- Flood basalts -- Stratovolcanoes -- Lava domes -- Violent caldera-forming pyroclastic eruptions -- What happens when molten rock meets water? -- When magma meets groundwater -- When lava meets surface water -- Can eruptions be predicted? -- Are volcanoes our friends or enemies? -- Cooling down -- Appendix: where to explore young volcanoes in the United States

Target audience

juvenile

Classification