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Volcano Cowboys The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
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Volcano Cowboys The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science Paperback - 2002

by Thompson, Dick


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Volcanoes have destroyed and killed throughout history, but we have never known much about them. Now a group of brave scientists are working to understand the actual conditions that cause eruptions, how to predict them, and what we can do, if anything, to temper their destructiveness. Thompson, a "Time" magazine correspondent, takes us from the May 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state through new concentrated efforts to construct a wider-reaching and more rigid discipline.
Thompson spent many hours with the relative handful of scientists whom he calls "volcano cowboys." They have loaned him their field notes and shared personal stories. That vivid material combined with Thompson's ability to bring a good story to life has resulted in a book that celebrates these "cowboys," their hazardous lives, and the often harrowing decisions they must make.

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Just below the timberline, where the snowfields stopped and the forests began, at an altitude of forty-five hundred feet on the north flank of Mount St. Helens, Rick Hoblitt laid down his cantankerous rock drill and his overstuffed backpack.

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  • Title Volcano Cowboys The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
  • Author Thompson, Dick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First St. Martin
  • Pages 326
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York, New York
  • Date January 18, 2002
  • ISBN 9780312286682

About the author

Dick Thompson, a former award-winning correspondent for "Time "magazine, covered science, medicine, space, and the environment for over twenty years. Thompson and his wife, Kristin, live in Switzerland.
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