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The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes

by Edwin J. Houston

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Chapter I — The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa in 1883
  3. 3Chapter II — Some Effects of the Eruption of Krakatoa
  4. 4Chapter III — The Volcanic Island of Hawaii
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Volcanic Island of Iceland
  6. 6Chapter V — Vesuvius
  7. 7Chapter VI — Other Volcanoes of the Mediterranean
  8. 8Chapter VII — Orizaba, Popocatepetl, Ixtaccihuatl, and Other Volcan…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Coseguina and Other Volcanoes of Central America
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Volcanic Mountains of South America
  11. 11Chapter X — Volcanoes of the United States
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Catastrophe of Martinique and the Volcanic Islands…
  13. 13Chapter XII — Some Other Noted Volcanic Mountains
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Jorullo, a Young Volcanic Mountain
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Mid-Ocean Volcanic Islands
  16. 16Chapter XV — Submarine Volcanoes
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Distribution of the Earth’s Volcanoes
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Volcanoes of the Geological Past
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Laplace’s Nebular Hypothesis
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Earth’s Heated Interior, the Cause of Volcanoes
  21. 21Chapter XX — Some Forms of Lava
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Mud Volcanoes and Hot Springs
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Volcanoes of the Moon
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Earthquakes
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Some of the Phenomena of Earthquakes
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Earthquake of Calabria in 1783
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Earthquake of Cutch, India, in 1819
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Some Other Notable Earthquakes
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Sodom and Gomorrah and the Cities of the Plain
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Instruments for Recording and Measuring Earthquake S…
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Seaquakes
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — The Distribution of Earthquakes
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — The Causes of Earthquakes
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Earthquakes of the Geological Past — Cataclysms
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — The Kimberly Diamond Fields and Their Volcanic Origin
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The Fabled Continent of Atlantis
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — Plato’s Account of Atlantis
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — Nature’s Warning of Coming Earthquakes

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