Shortly after World War II Shusako Endo, having graduated in French Literature from Keio University in Tokyo, was the first Japanese who went to study in France, where he devoted himself to twentieth-century French Catholic literature – the works of Muriac, Bernanos Claudel, Maritain, et al. at the University of Lyons.
Viewing an erupting volcano is a memorable experience, one that has inspired fear, superstition, worship, curiosity and fascination throughout the history of mankind. In modern times, volcanic phenomena have attracted intense scientific interest, because they provide the key to understanding processes that have created and shaped more than 80 percent of the Earth’s surface.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy, has been developing geothermal energy technology for nearly 20 years. The technology and experimental verification concepts developed by the Laboratory’s Hot Dry Rock Program have demonstrated tremendous potential for what is now known as heat mining- the creation of a man-made heat-exchange system in hot, fractu…
Volcanic activity is one of the main agents responsible for shaping the landscape, environment and climate of planets and moons. On Earth, volcanic eruption can also have catastrophic consequences for human society.
Most of the Earths mountains, valley and plains have been slowly sculpted by uplift and erosion ever that last million years, and these, in turn, have formed from other landscape long vanished. Volcanoes though, operate on a different time scale.
The most fundamental part of our environment is the earth on which we live and with which we have the closest contact. This is the realm of geology, the science of the earth. The materials of the solid earth – the rocks, their structure, their alteration by geologic processes, the fossil remains of ancient life in the rock formations – these are the tools the geologist uses to reconstruct t…
Fundamentals of physical Volcanology is a comprehensive overview of the processes that control when and how volcanoes erupt. Understanding these processes involves bringing together ideas from a number of disciplines, including branches of geology, such as petrology and geochemistry; and aspects of physics, such as fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.
This , My Latest Book, is another experiment. After sixty years of volcanoes I have learned reversal of preconceived notions. Gradually I have learned a totally different approach. Shaler of Harvard was my inspirer, worker in the wonder of swamp and ice and sea beaches.
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The eminent volcanologist T.A. Jaggar in no way exaggerated the significance of volcanic phenomena when je stated that his conception of volcanicity was of a process which is everywhere at work within and beneath the earth’s crust. Today there are more than 500 volcanoes which are still active or at which activity has been recorded during historic times, while the number of extinct volcanoes,…