Children's Nonfiction Disasters
Volcano Alert!
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2004
- Category
- Disasters, General, Weather
- Recommended Age
- 9
- Recommended Grade
- 4
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778716020
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $9.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780778715702
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $25.95
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Description
Some of history’s greatest recorded disasters involved the spewing magma or falling ash from an erupting volcano. This book takes readers deep under the earth to the source of a volcano’s power and then around the world to some of the most spectacular eruptions in history. Volcano Alert! also explores • the dangers of lava and pyroclastic surges • the scientific tools volcanologists use to predict and measure eruptions • famous volcanoes such as Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius, and Mount Pinatubo • activity/observation page