Fire Mountains of the Islands : (Record no. 112664)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781922144232 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781922144225 |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC4585985 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL4585985 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr11234895 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)821211805 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HV551.5.S575 -- J64 2013eb |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Johnson, R. W. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fire Mountains of the Islands : |
| Remainder of title | A History of Volcanic Eruptions and Disaster Management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Canberra : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | ANU Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2013. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (416 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preliminary pages -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements and Sources -- Volcano Names and Totals -- 1. Burning Islands and Dampier's Voyage: 1700 -- Track of the Roebuck -- Near Oceania, Melanesia and Melanesians -- Early Ideas about Volcanic Activity -- Preview -- 2. Volcano Sightings by European Navigators: 1528-1870 -- Saavedra, Retes and Mendaña -- Schouten, Le Maire and Tasman -- Carteret, Hunter, D'Entrecasteaux and ParkerWilson -- European and Melanesian Viewpoints -- 3. European Intruders and the 1878 Rabaul Eruption: 1870-1883 -- Blanche Bay and the Tolai -- Miklouho-Maclay -- Traders, Missionaries and a GentlemanExplorer -- 1878 Eruption at Rabaul -- Powell's Voyage and a Possible Eruption 'Pulse' -- Volcanological Events Elsewhere -- 4. Volcanic Events of the German Era: 1884-1914 -- Colonial Partitioning -- Ritter Island Disaster -- Hahl and Sapper -- Time Cluster of Eruptions -- 5. Australian Colonists and the Volcanoes of Mainland New Guinea:1849-1938 -- First Impressions -- British New Guinea and Victory Volcano -- Evan R. Stanley in Papua -- Australians in the Territory of New Guinea after 1920 -- Australians in the Territory of Papua before 1938 -- 6. Calderas, Ignimbrites and the1937 Eruption at Rabaul: 1914-1940 -- Garrison Life and Volcanoes -- Australian Expedition along the Bismarck Volcanic Arc -- Calderas and Ignimbrites -- Eruption at Rabaul in 1937 -- Subsequent Investigations at Rabaul -- 7. Eruptions during the Pacific Warand Postwar Recovery: 1941-1950 -- Fisher and Renewed Activity from Tavurvur -- Kizawa and the Sulphur Creek Observatory -- Eruptions at Goropu Volcano, Papua -- Hiroshima, Surges and Postwar Recovery -- Changing the Volcanological Leadership -- 8. Disaster at Lamington: 1951-1952 -- Higaturu and the Orokaiva -- Build-up to Catastrophe -- Relief and Recovery -- Seeking Explanation and Meaning -- Aftermath. |
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| Formatted contents note | 9. Tony Taylor and an Eruption Time Cluster: 1951-1966 -- Eruptions of 1951-1957 -- Experiments in Prediction -- Long Island Evacuation of 1953-1954 -- Bam Tragedy of 1954-1955 -- Evacuation of Manam and the 1956-1966 Eruptions -- Tuluman 1953-1957 and the Obsidian Minersof Lou -- 10. Plate Tectonics and False Alarms:1960-1972 -- Advances in Science and Technology -- Gas Emissions from Two Highlands Volcanoes -- Volcanic-Disaster Preparations at WauTownship in 1967 -- Evacuation from Dawson Strait in 1969 -- Origin of the Dawson Strait Earthquakes and a Note on Volcanic False Alarms -- Tectonic Earthquakes and the End of theTaylor Era -- 11. Cooke-Ravian and a Volcanic Resurgence: 1971-1979 -- New Eruption Time Cluster -- Ulawun and the Threat of Cone Collapse -- Long Island Disaster and Tibito Tephra -- Yomba and Cook: Two 'Mystery' Volcanoes -- Fatal Eruption on Karkar in 1979 -- 12. Eruption Alert at Rabaul Caldera:1971-1994 -- Crisis Build-up and Stage-2 Alert -- Scientific Responses to the Caldera Unrest -- Worldwide Volcanic Crises and Developments in Risk Awareness -- Costs, Benefits and Crisis Decline: 1985-1994 -- Volcanic Alert on Simbo Island -- 13. Eruptions at Rabaul: 1994-1999 -- First Three Weeks -- Physical Damage -- Post Mortem and New Directions for RVO -- Ongoing Eruptions and New Insights -- Restoring the North-eastern Gazelle Peninsula -- 14. Eruptions of the Early Twenty-first Century: 1998-2008 -- International Developments and Modern Near Oceania -- Ulawun: A Decade Volcano -- Ulawun 2000: A Short-lived, Powerful Eruption -- Pago 2002-2003: An Unexpected Eruption -- Threat of a Caldera-Forming Eruption at Pago-Witori -- Manam 2004-2005: Abandoning a Volcanic Island? -- Rabaul 2006 and other Volcanic Crises in1999-2007 -- 15. Reassessing Volcanic Risk in the North-eastern Gazelle Peninsula: 2000-2012 -- Restructuring a Society. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Volcanic Hazards -- Early Warnings and a New Model for Rabaul Volcano -- Determining Risk Today -- 16. Historical Analysis and Volcanic Disaster-Risk Reduction -- Patterns in the Historical Record -- Evacuations, Early Warnings and False Alarms -- Artefacts and Oral Traditions -- International Disaster-Risk Reduction -- Observatories and Volcanic Disaster-Risk Reduction -- Strengthening At-Risk Communities in Near Oceania -- An Epilogue -- Appendix: Acronyms and Glossaries -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.This book reviews what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Volcanic eruptions--Soloman Islands. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Johnson, R. W. |
| Title | Fire Mountains of the Islands |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Canberra : ANU Press,c2013 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781922144225 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4585985">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4585985</a> |
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