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In 1969, as Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, a young geologist known as Duff was preparing to set foot on a rocky landscape of another sort: Kilauea Volcano and her sister volcanoes on the island of Hawaii. Duff headed off to the Big Island in the company of his wife and their emerald-eyed cat, Mingo, for a three-year sojourn at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.Volcanologists and general readers alike will enjoy author Wendell Duffield's report from Kilauea -- home of Pele, the goddess of fire and volcanoes. Duff's narrative encompasses everything from the scientific (his discovery that the movements of cooled lava on a lava lake mimic the movements of the earth's crust, providing an accessible model for understanding plate tectonics) to the humorous (his dog's discovery of a snake on the supposedly snake-free island) to the life-threatening (a colleague's plunge into molten lava).
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Duffield (scientist emer., US Geological Survey) provides 25, brief, autobiographical essays based on his 1969-72 stint at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. He briefly recounts the history of the observatory, then presents a series of eclectic vignettes that not only include the expected encounters with earthquakes and lava, but also with government bureaucracy, vegetation (edible and inedible) and even a snake (in Hawai'i!). The reader is certainly left with a better understanding of the day-to-day activities of a practicing volcanologist. Although the book provides a glimpse into the advances made by observatory geologists over the years in understanding the structure of volcanoes, the nature of volcanic processes, and the origin of Hawai'i, other, more technical works certainly cover these topics in more detail. Some of them, in fact, are listed as suggested reading in the appendix. The book is well illustrated, and the writing style seems intended to engage the nontechnical reader. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates. E. R. Swanson University of Texas at San Antonio
目录
A Farm Boy's Image of Hawai'i | p. 1 |
A Volcano Observatory Is Born | p. 5 |
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Grows | p. 21 |
Mingo Leads the Way | p. 31 |
Our New Home | p. 35 |
Focusing In: The Hawaiian Islands and Their String of Old Neighbors | p. 41 |
Taking the Pulse of Kilauea | p. 51 |
Are You on the Level? | p. 57 |
A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, a Geodimeter, and Thou | p. 63 |
You're Right! That IS a Snake!! | p. 71 |
Yellow Runoff | p. 77 |
Water Beds and Magma Beds | p. 83 |
Tree Molds and Leg Molds | p. 89 |
A Suffocating Experience | p. 97 |
How Fast Can You Run? | p. 101 |
Living off the Land | p. 107 |
Camping at Halape | p. 111 |
Swords into Plowshares, Spears into Pruning Hooks | p. 117 |
Disharmonious Tremor and Premature Eruption | p. 123 |
Tainted Lava | p. 129 |
The Dance of the Plates | p. 133 |
Why I Cruise Parking Lots | p. 139 |
The South Flank Story | p. 143 |
Mingo Goes Home | p. 153 |
Epilogue: Sharing the Fruits of Maturation | p. 157 |
A Gallery of Directors and Scientists-in-Charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, 1912-2002 | p. 162 |
Additional Readings for the Technically Inclined | p. 164 |
Index | p. 167 |