Volcanos

The Character of Their Phenomena, Their Share in the Structure and Composition of the Surface of the Globe, and Their Relation to its Internal Forces

By:

George Poulett Scrope

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science

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While a student, George Poulett Scrope (1797–1876) visited Vesuvius and Etna and developed a passionate enthusiasm for volcanos. He did pioneering fieldwork in France in 1821, witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius in 1822, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826. Scrope became increasingly involved in economics and politics, but later in his career published revised versions of two pioneering books on volcanism he had originally published in the 1820s. Volcanos (1862), reissued here, was based on his Considerations on Volcanos (1825, also reissued in this series) and dedicated to his life-long friend and colleague Charles Lyell. This influential work on volcanic phenomena includes a substantial catalogue of 'all known volcanos and volcanic formations' as well as a dramatic illustration of Vesuvius. It was translated into French and German, went into a second English edition in 1872, and was one of the foundational texts of volcanology.

Release date Australia

June 9th, 2011

Author

George Poulett Scrope

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

1 Plates, unspecified; 1 Maps; 68 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

516

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science

Dimensions

140x216x29

ISBN-13

9781108072533

Product ID

10429853

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