Volcanoes: 10 Things You Should Know

· Hachette UK
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Unearth the fascinating fundamentals of volcanoes...

In ten short and informative essays, leading volcanologist Dr Rebecca Williams reveals everything you need to know about volcanoes. From the deadliest eruptions of all time and how to survive a volcanic eruption to why a volcano won't erupt in your back garden and volcanoes in outer space, discover all of this and much, much more!

Volcanoes: 10 Things You Should Know is an illuminating and engaging guide to exploring the most exciting natural phenomena on planet earth.

About the author

Dr Rebecca Williams is a volcanologist who takes an interdisciplinary approach to volcano research. Rebecca's research focusses on volcano-stratigraphy and hazardous volcanic flows (pyroclastic density currents and lahars), social-historical volcanology, and the communication of volcano science. All this drives towards understanding how communities may be affected by volcanic eruptions past, present and future. She is the leader of the Catastrophic Flows Research Cluster. In 2017 she was awarded the British Science Association Charles Lyell Award for her research and science communication and gave the 2017 Lyell Lecture at the British Science Festival. She has worked as a freelance consultant on a number of geology and volcanology titles and is one of the authors of DK Books Explanatorium Earth.

Find out more at https://rwvolcanologist.wordpress.com/ and @volcanologist on X/Twitter (12k followers).

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