Volcanoes: Global Perspectives
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Exceptional customer service Get specialist help and advice. Volcanoes are a vital presence in our world, and play a key role in maintaining the human eco-environment through soil enrichment and atmospheric inputs. They are also hazardous features, whose eruptions have not only killed many hundreds of thousands of people in recorded history, but have also greatly influenced both the development of human culture and the evolution of human species.
Volcanoes commonly form beautiful landscapes, and form the principal features of national parks all over the world, serving as magnets that attract millions of visitors each year. Hundreds of millions of other people live on or in the shadows of active volcanoes. Most of these people have only a shallow, passing interest in the volcanoes they see, but there is a certain large, enthusiastic cohort of these people whose fascination with volcanoes leads them travel to see volcanoes close-up, and to seek authoritative volcanological information.
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English View all editions and formats Summary: Volcanoes are essential elements in the delicate global balance of elemental forces that govern both the dynamic evolution of the Earth and the nature of Life itself. Without volcanic activity, life as we know it would not exist on our planet.
Although beautiful to behold, volcanoes are also potentially destructive, and understanding their nature is critical to prevent major loss of life in the future. Richly illustrated with over original color photographs and diagrams the book is written in an informal manner, with minimum use of jargon, and relies heavily on first-person, eye-witness ac.
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Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Electronic books Material Type: Document, Internet resource Document Type: John Lockwood Richard W Hazlett. Publisher Synopsis "Overall I would highly recommend this work to anyone whowishes to understand volcanoes from a globalperspective. User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. The concern is rightly focused on Katla, whose caldera is at least 12 km across!
Q Are there other parts of the world where flight lanes are or have been closed due to ash producing volcanoes?
Has one volcano ever caused a 'no-fly-zone' of this size? The Aleutian arc, in Alaska, is a particular concern due to the huge amount of aviation between Europe, the US and East Asia crosses or flies adjacent to the Aleutians. This has compelled cooperation between volcano observatories in Japan, Russia, and the US to monitor volcanism in the region closely for early warning and response purposes.
The eruption, which was quite violent, lasted for almost a month. I don't think the airlines can or should breathe easy quite yet because of "eased flight restrictions". On the other hand, there are patterns of past volcanic activity that can act as a guide to probable future development.
I don't view the current eruption as anything really exceptional, except in terms of the disruption caused by its ash fall. Nor, apparently, do most Icelanders find it a terrible problem, at this stage at least.