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THE WONDER BOOK OF
VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES
THE
WONDER BOOK
OF
VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES
BY
Professor EDWIN J. HOUSTON, Ph.D.
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Publishers
Copyright, 1907, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
October, 1907
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We take this opportunity of acknowledging the courtesy of the following publishers, who have helped us in connection with the illustrations of this book:—
Henry Holt and Company ("Physiography," by Rollin D. Salisbury).
D. Appleton and Company (Figs. 13, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46, "Volcanoes: What They Are and What They Teach," by J. W. Judd; Fig. 15, "Principles of Geology," by Sir C. Lyell).
The American Book Company ("Manual of Geology," by James Dwight Dana).
G. P. Putnam's Sons ("Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology," by C. E. Dutton).
The Clarendon Press ("Geology: Chemical, Physical, and Stratigraphical," by Joseph Prestwich).
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 | 1 |
| II. | Some Effects of the Eruption of Krakatoa | 12 |
| III. | The Volcanic Island of Hawaii | 26 |
| IV. | The Volcanic Island of Iceland | 46 |
| V. | Vesuvius | 58 |
| VI. | Other Volcanoes of the Mediterranean | 73 |
| VII. | Orizaba, Popocatepetl, Ixtaccihuatl, and Other Volcanoes of Mexico | 85 |
| VIII. | Coseguina and Other Volcanoes of Central America | 91 |
| IX. | The Volcanic Mountains of South America | 97 |
| X. | Volcanoes of the United States | 105 |
| XI. | The Catastrophe of Martinique and the Volcanic Islands of the Lesser Antilles | 117 |
| XII. | Some Other Noted Volcanic Mountains | 125 |
| XIII. | Jorullo, a Young Volcanic Mountain | 130 |
| XIV. | Mid-Ocean Volcanic Islands | 137 |