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Super Volcanoes

What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond

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An exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system's strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes.
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of our planet.
Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earth-bound and otherwise, and explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews describes the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land, and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Traveling from Hawaii, Tanzania, Yellowstone, and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus, and Mars, Andrews explores cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 25, 2021
      “Volcanoes are capable of doing things that verge on the supernatural,” writes journalist Andrews in his enlightening debut. Volcanoes have a “terrible reputation” of being destructive, and in service of putting them in a new light, Andrews takes readers on a tour of some strange and fascinating examples of “the magic they make and the secrets they unearth.” He covers Kilauea, the volcano in Hawaii that erupted in 2018, as well as the supervolcano that gave rise to Yellowstone National Park between 17 million and 2 million years ago. Andrews also spotlights Ol Doinyo Lengai, a volcano in Tanzania that he describes as “one of the most peculiar... in the entire solar system” because it spews out black lava, plus a slew of undersea volcanoes more active than those found on land. There are also volcanoes on Mars, Venus, and the moons of Jupiter, he shows, and suggests that studying these interstellar volcanoes can “help us ask better questions about the universe.” Andrews does a superb job making complex geology accessible to more casual readers, and offers vivid descriptions of the forces behind both active and ancient volcanoes. As entertaining as it is informative, this is science writing done right.

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