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a tour of our solar neighbourhood,
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This review is from: Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io (Hardcover)
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. |
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Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io by Charles Frankel (Hardcover - October 31, 2005)
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