Chasing lava : a geologist's adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory /
A lively account of the three years (1969-1972) spent by geologist Wendell Duffield working at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory at Kilauea, one of the world's more active volcanoes. Abundantly illustrated in b&w and color, with line drawings and maps, as well. Volcanologists and general rea...
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Missoula, Mont. :
Mountain Press Pub. Co.,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Farm boy's image of Hawai'i
- Volcano observatory is born
- Hawaiian volcano observatory grows
- Mingo leads the way
- Our new home
- Focusing in: Hawaiian islands and their string of old neighbors
- Taking the pulse of Kilauea
- Are you on the level?
- Loaf of bread, a jug of wine, a geodimeter, and thou
- You're right! That is a snake!!
- Yellow runoff
- Water beds and magma beds
- Tree molds and leg molds
- Suffocating experience
- How fast can you run?
- Living off the land
- Camping at Halape
- Swords into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks
- Disharmonious tremor and premature eruption
- Tainted lava
- Dance of the plates
- Why I cruise parking lots
- South flank story
- Mingo goes home
- Epilogue: Sharing the fruits of maturation
- Gallery of directors and scientists-in-charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, 1912--2002 162
- Additional readings for the technically inclined
- Index