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Just read: Out of the caldera: chronicles of a volcanologist, by Richard V. Fisher. This is a series of short chapters mixing personal memoir, discussions of field trips to look at volcanoes and other geology, and information on volcanoes, especially calderas and the flow of ignimbrite. He talks about getting interested in geology, and connects it to his time in the navy, and watching the bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
The author is an emeritus professor, and the epilogue points to a website, the Volcano Information Center, which is old enough to offer AltaVista search (and says copyright 1999); mostly a link farm, at least some of the links still work. I picked this up semi-randomly at the Somerville Library, where I'd gone to pick up a reserved book and decided to sit and read, waiting for the repair people to restore heat to our apartment building after a power outage last week.
The author is an emeritus professor, and the epilogue points to a website, the Volcano Information Center, which is old enough to offer AltaVista search (and says copyright 1999); mostly a link farm, at least some of the links still work. I picked this up semi-randomly at the Somerville Library, where I'd gone to pick up a reserved book and decided to sit and read, waiting for the repair people to restore heat to our apartment building after a power outage last week.
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