Volcano Cowboys The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science

Name: Volcano Cowboys The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
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ISBN: 9780312286682

ISBN-10: 0312286686

ISBN-13: 9780312286682

Edition: Revised

Authors: Dick Thompson

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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 wider-reaching and more rigid discipline. Thompson spent many hours with the relative handful of scientists whom he calls "volcano cowboys." They have loaned him their field notes and shared personal stories. That vivid material combined with…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/18/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Mount St. Helens, 1980



Hoblitt's Floating Island, Summer 1979



Disbelief



The Musketeers



The Bulge


Field Notes: May 17, 1980/Mindy Brugman



Swanson


Field Notes: May 18, 1980/The St. Helens Observers



The Learning Season, 1980-1989


Field Notes: August 1980/The FPP Experiment



The Volcano Lab: St. Helens After the Blast



Mammoth Lakes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place



The Volcano Zoo



After Armero


Field Notes: December 15, 1989/Redoubt, Alaska



Mount Pinatubo, 1991



Trained Decision Makers



They'll Think You're a Hero



Eruption


Field Notes: August 1991/Bezymianny


Notes


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Index