Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and IO

by Charles Frankel

Book Overview

Anyone who has ever thought that volcanoes and volcanism were restricted to the planet Earth should open any page of this book to discover that some of the most spectacular explosions in the Solar... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521803934
• ISBN13: 9780521803939
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

a tour of our solar neighbourhood

Unlike many other books on volcanism, this text looks at the phenomenon across the entire Solar System. A far broader approach that will appeal to many readers. Of course, the bulk of the discussion is on terrestrial volcanoes, because we have the most data on these. Then, the text talks about lunar volcanoes; all extinct, please note. But the scale gets grander when we venture to Mars. Olympus Mons is utterly massive. Nothing remotely like it on Earth. But Martian volcanoes are also thought to be extinct. Not so with Venusian and Ionian volcanoes. Especially for the latter, one of whose volcanoes was first seen in profile by a Voyager spacecraft in the 80s, spewing its innards into space. A glittering tour of our neighbourhood.