Booklist: Super Volcano, by Greg Breining

Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bom Beneath Yellowsstone National Park, by Greg Breining
Voyageur Press, 2007
242 pages, plus glossary, b&w photo and maps scattered throughout test, References and Index
Library: 551.21097 67 BRE

Description
Every year, 3 million visitors tour Yellowstone, America's favorite national park. Yet most are unaware they are standing atop one of the world's most destructive volcanoes.

It's active and could explode in another colossal eruption!

Using field research and interviews with geologists and a paleontologist, journalist Greg Breining uncovers the true story of the Yellowstone super volcano. It is capable of expelling more than 200 cubic miles of magma in a single blow. Breining looks at how geologists pieced together the puzzle of the Yellowstone super volcano, the devastation it has wrought, the natural wonders it has created, where it stands in relation to other prehistoric super eruptions, how it compares with famous deadly eruptions throughout history-and finally, what will happen in the next big blast.

Table of Contents
1. The Big Blast
2. Yellowstone Today
3. Natural Wonders
4. Evolving GEology
5. The Yellowstone Puzzle
6. Distant Death
7. Most-Super Volcanoes
8. The Deadliest Volcanoes
9. The Next Big Blast
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author


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