Thomas A. Jaggar, inspired by Shaler at Harvard, chose volcanoes when few scientists studied them in the field. He recalls his student experiments with ripple marks, the decade of expeditions to eruptions around the world, and living beside Kilauea, where he and his wife measured the lava lake and the ground as it rose and split.
The memoir of a founder of modern volcanology, for anyone fascinated by Hawaii’s fire mountains. Download the free EPUB.