Seismology & Volcanism
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Bad Friday
$16.95 Add to cartOn March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake in
- Author: Freedman, Lew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 17
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1935347241
- Language: English
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When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond
$29.95 Add to cartHow earthquakes can reveal the subsurface secrets of our planet and other worlds
When Worlds Quake is a fascinating account of how scientists around the globe seek to use quakes to answer tantalizing- Author: Tkalčic, Hrvoje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 069127147X
- Language: English
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The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
$32.00 Add to cartThe story behind Dr. Gerta Keller’s world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discov… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Gerta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150467
- Language: English
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Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us about the World and Ourselves
$32.99 Add to cart*A Library Journal Best Book of 2024*
A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the … [more below]
- Author: Mather, Tamsin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1335080856
- Language: English
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Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland’s geological history and its impacts on the city’s urban present.
“This book has tu
- Author: Alden, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 159714679X
- Language: English
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
$18.95 Read moreVolcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035919
- Language: English
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Fire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scott, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830033
- Language: English
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The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
$19.95 Add to cartThe Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast is the gripping story of the geological discoveries–and the scientists who uncovered them–that signal the imminence of a catastrophic tsunami on the Nort… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0870717324
- Language: English
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Eruptions That Shook the World
$39.99 Add to cartWhat does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption… [more below]
- Author: Oppenheimer, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: June 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0521641128
- Language: English
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
$17.99 Add to cartFor months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a catacl
- Author: Olson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353583
- Language: English
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The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
$30.00 Read moreAn internationally recognized scientist shows that Earth’s separate continents, once together in Pangea, are again on a collision course.
You’ve heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart s
- Author: Mitchell, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824918
- Language: English
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Touring Hot Springs Washington and Oregon: The States’ Best Resorts and Rustic Soaks
$22.95 Add to cartScattered from the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula to the dry desert lakebeds of the Alvord Desert, the hot springs of Washington and Oregon provide some of the most unique vacation opportunities… [more below]
- Series: Touring Hot Springs
- Author: Birkby, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493046640
- Language: English
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Assembling California
$20.00 Add to cartAt various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these tr
- Series: Annals of the Former World #4
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374523932
- Language: English
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Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
$27.50 Read moreMeeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind.
In Mountains of Fire, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand with him in the shadow of an active- Author: Oppenheimer, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826341
- Language: English
