Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io
Cambridge University Press, 9/22/2005
EAN 9780521803939, ISBN10: 0521803934
Hardcover, 384 pages, 15.2 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Worlds on Fire takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the mightiest volcanoes in the solar system. From Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and Mount Etna in Sicily, it leaps to the lava fields and rilles of the Moon, retraces the historic footsteps of the Apollo astronauts and describes new volcanic provinces to explore. The three largest volcanoes of Mars - Olympus Mons, Alba Patera and Arsia Mons - are profiled, amongst others. The strange world of Venus, revealed by radar, opens our perspective of volcanism to features never seen before: pancake domes of puffed-up lava, and gigantic fault rings sitting over buried magma chambers. The tour of the solar system ends with the only current eruptions outside Earth: the spectacular volcanoes of Io - Jupiter's fiery moon. This highly readable 2005 book, illustrated with the most recent imagery from spacecraft, will appeal to general readers, and students of Earth and planetary sciences.
1. Volcanism on Earth
2. A tour of terrestrial volcanoes
3. Volcanism on the Moon
4. A tour of Lunar volcanoes
5. Volcanism on Mars
6. A tour of Martian volcanoes
7. Volcanism on Venus
8. A tour of Venusian volcanoes
9. Volcanism on Io
10. A tour of Ionian volcanoes.
Review of the hardback: 'This book gives an excellent up-to-date account of how volcanologists, like archaeologists of the planets, are figuratively digging into ancient lava flows, ash falls and enormous volcanic mountains to reconstruct the dramas of geologic evolution on different worlds.' Dr William K. Hartmann, Mars Global Surveyor participating scientist and author of A Traveler's Guide to Mars