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The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

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1. Front matter 2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3. FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS 4. ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 5. CHAPTER I THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION OF KRAKATOA IN 1883 6. CHAPTER II SOME EFFECTS OF THE ERUPTION OF KRAKATOA 7. CHAPTER III THE VOLCANIC ISLAND OF HAWAII 8. CHAPTER IV THE VOLCANIC ISLAND OF ICELAND 9. CHAPTER V VESUVIUS 10. CHAPTER VI OTHER VOLCANOES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 11. CHAPTER VII ORIZABA, POPOCATEPETL, IXTACCIHUATL, AND OTHER VOLCANOES OF MEXICO 12. CHAPTER VIII COSEGUINA AND OTHER VOLCANOES OF CENTRAL AMERICA 13. CHAPTER IX THE VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH AMERICA 14. CHAPTER X VOLCANOES OF THE UNITED STATES 15. CHAPTER XI THE CATASTROPHE OF MARTINIQUE AND THE VOLCANIC ISLANDS OF THE LESSER ANTILLES 16. CHAPTER XII SOME OTHER NOTED VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS 17. CHAPTER XIII JORULLO, A YOUNG VOLCANIC MOUNTAIN 18. CHAPTER XIV MID-OCEAN VOLCANIC ISLANDS 19. CHAPTER XV SUBMARINE VOLCANOES 20. CHAPTER XVI DISTRIBUTION OF THE EARTH'S VOLCANOES 21. CHAPTER XVII VOLCANOES OF THE GEOLOGICAL PAST 22. CHAPTER XVIII LAPLACE'S NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS 23. CHAPTER XIX THE EARTH'S HEATED INTERIOR, THE CAUSE OF VOLCANOES 24. CHAPTER XX SOME FORMS OF LAVA 25. CHAPTER XXI MUD VOLCANOES AND HOT SPRINGS 26. CHAPTER XXII THE VOLCANOES OF THE MOON 27. CHAPTER XXIII EARTHQUAKES 28. CHAPTER XXIV SOME OF THE PHENOMENA OF EARTHQUAKES 29. CHAPTER XXV THE EARTHQUAKE OF CALABRIA IN 1783 30. CHAPTER XXVI THE GREAT LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755 31. CHAPTER XXVII THE EARTHQUAKE OF CUTCH, INDIA, IN 1819 32. CHAPTER XXVIII THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE OF APRIL 18, 1906 33. CHAPTER XXIX SOME OTHER NOTABLE EARTHQUAKES 34. CHAPTER XXX SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 35. CHAPTER XXXI INSTRUMENTS FOR RECORDING AND MEASURING EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS 36. CHAPTER XXXII SEAQUAKES 37. CHAPTER XXXIII THE DISTRIBUTION OF EARTHQUAKES 38. CHAPTER XXXIV THE CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES 39. CHAPTER XXXV EARTHQUAKES OF THE GEOLOGICAL PAST—CATACLYSMS 40. CHAPTER XXXVI THE KIMBERLY DIAMOND FIELDS AND THEIR VOLCANIC ORIGIN 41. CHAPTER XXXVII THE FABLED CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS 42. CHAPTER XXXVIII PLATO'S ACCOUNT OF ATLANTIS 43. CHAPTER XXXIX NATURE'S WARNING OF COMING EARTHQUAKES

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