Volcanoes & Earthquakes

Cover featuring yellow title text on a dark background with a photo of a volcano mid-eruption.

By: Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, Alex Whittaker

A fully illustrated and engaging introduction to earthquakes, volcanoes and plate tectonics.

Volcanoes & Earthquakes features the earth sciences at their most spectacular. It reveals the massive internal forces that create and change the Earth’s surface, with dramatic and sometimes beautiful consequences. + Full description

The authors explain what fuels the power of volcanoes and earthquakes, and explore how the gradual shifting of tectonic plates has transformed the Earth over its four and a half thousand million year existence.

Written in a jargon-free style and fully illustrated with photographs, diagrams and maps, this is a cutting-edge introduction to earthquakes, volcanoes and plate tectonics, incorporating all the latest research developments.

- Short description

News

Sales in Australia and New Zealand only. Elsewhere, this title is available through The Natural History Museum.

Reviews

"Although the very esteemed authors could very well slip into a science heavy jargon this is not the case. The easy to understand explanations and descriptions, coupled with clear and accessible diagrams and maps, make this a text for students from junior secondary through to beginning tertiary study."
Queensland Geographer 54(2), 2019

"It’s a fascinating read, and an often surprising one. If you’re looking for something educational and perhaps a bit different in these long days of viral incarceration, you could do a lot worse than this one."
Ian Fraser's Natural History Reviews #28, April 2020

"Chiara Maria Petrone writes with obvious passion for her subject and draws the reader in, so that some advanced university-level concepts are introduced without losing a high school science teacher or a Year 11 Earth and environmental science student."
Colin Price, Teaching Science 66(2), June 2020

Details

Paperback | October 2019 | $ 29.99
ISBN: 9781486312740 | 144 pages | 230 x 173 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour photographs, Illustrations, Maps

Features

Accessible, jargon-free guide to the Earth’s most explosive natural forces
Includes the latest research drawn from studies and events worldwide
Fully illustrated, with colour photographs, diagrams and maps throughout

Introduction
1: Tectonics
2: Volcanoes
3: Earthquakes and faults
4: Impacts and benefits
5: Volcanic hazards
References
Index
Picture credits

Authors

Chiara Maria Petrone is a Research Leader in Petrology and Volcanology in the Earth Sciences Department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Roberto Scandone is a Research Associate at the Vesuvius Observatory, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Naples.

Alex Whittaker is a Senior Lecturer in Tectonics in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College, London.