Chasing Lava
A Geologist's Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
by Wendell A. Duffield
Chasing Lava: A Geologist's Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
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| Chapter 1. A Farm Boy's Image of Hawai'i |
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| Chapter 2. A Volcano Observatory Is Born |
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| Chapter 3. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Grows |
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| Chapter 4. Mingo Leads the Way |
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| Chapter 5. Our New Home |
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| Chapter 6. Focusing In: The Hawaiian Islands and Their String of Old Neighbors |
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| Chapter 7. Taking the Pulse of Kilauea |
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| Chapter 8. Are You on the Level? |
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| Chapter 9. A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, a Geodimeter, and Thou |
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| Chapter 10. You're Right! That IS a Snake!! |
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| Chapter 11. Yellow Runoff |
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| Chapter 12. Water Beds and Magma Beds |
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| Chapter 13. Tree Molds and Leg Molds |
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| Chapter 14. A Suffocating Experience |
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| Chapter 15. How Fast Can You Run? |
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| Chapter 16. Living off the Land |
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| Chapter 17. Camping at Halape |
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| Chapter 18. Swords into Plowshares, Spears into Pruning Hooks |
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| Chapter 19. Disharmonious Tremor and Premature Eruptions |
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| Chapter 20. Tainted Lava |
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| Chapter 21. The Dance of the Plates |
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| Chapter 22. Why I Cruise Parking Lots |
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| Chapter 23. The South Flank Story |
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| Chapter 24. Mingo Goes Home |
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| Chapter 25. Epilogue: Sharing the Fruits of Maturation |
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A Gallery of Directors and Scientists-in-Charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, 1912-2002 |
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| Additional Readings for the Technically Inclined |
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| Index |
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