Overview
- Editors:
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Jack Green
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Douglas Advanced Research Laboratories, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Huntington Beach, USA
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Nicholas M. Short
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Earth Observations Branch National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages N2-xxv
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- Jack Green, Nicholas M. Short
Pages 20-455
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Back Matter
Pages 457-519
About this book
THIS BOOK, conceived by N. M. S. , is patterned this atlas, namely to assemble into a single source after The Atlas and Glossary of Primary Sedi book a photographic record of nearly all volcanic mentary Structures by F. J. Pettijohn and P. E. Potter surface features described during the development (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. ). We introduce of volcanology so that future workers on terrestrial this atlas with a chapter by the late Arie Polder problems can refer to these photos for comparative vaart treating the principal concepts of volcanoes or illustrative purposes. as landforms, followed by a main section of photo Also, we hope that this atlas will serve as an aid graphs of volcanic structures and features arranged to those engaged in learning or teaching the funda in 198 Plates, and then conclude with an up mentals of geology and its sub fields, such as petro dated glossary of terms associated with volcan logy or geophysics. To this end we have attempted ology, its processes and products. to create a book simple and general enough to be The atlas is, in a sense, an outgrowth of the useful even at the secondary school level, but with expanding interest in volcanology recently stimu sufficient detail and rigor to be acceptable to both lated by the exploration of neighboring planetary students and professors in the universities. Further, bodies in the solar system.
Editors and Affiliations
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Douglas Advanced Research Laboratories, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Huntington Beach, USA
Jack Green
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Earth Observations Branch National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
Nicholas M. Short
