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EYEWITNESS VOLCANO AND EARTHQUAKES |
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| Book: Hardback | 224 x 292mm | 72 pages | ISBN 9780756607357 | 25 Aug 2004 | Dorling Kindersley | 8 - 18 |
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New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!
Get a front row seat to the violent eruptions and tremors that have shaped our planet and discover how volcanic eruptions can actually be beneficial to our soil. Brilliant color photographs of lava flows and clouds of ash, plus specially built 3-D models, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of volcanoes and earthquakes, from the forces that drive them to the devastation they cause. See streams of red-hot lava, the earliest seismographs, rocks that float in water, the bodies of people killed by the great eruption of Vesuvius, and pools of bubbling mud. Learn how animals can detect earthquakes before people, what causes a fire fountain, how buildings are made to withstand earthquakes, and where to hide during an earthquake. Discover how the Mercalli scale works, how new islands are formed, why the sands of Hawaii are black, how volcanoes affect the ozone layer, what makes magma explode, and much, much more!
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