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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    March 2012
    May 2011
    ISBN:
    9780511973277
    9781108072526
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973277
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.02kg, 426 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    The German geologist Leopold von Buch (1774–1853) was a fellow-student of Alexander von Humboldt, with whom he later did fieldwork that led to important advances in the understanding of the Jurassic system and the origins of basalt. In 1815 Buch and the Norwegian botanist Christian Smith spent several months in the Canary Isles, and the resulting book, which appeared in 1825, is one of Buch's most important publications. It contains three papers Buch had previously published in journals, on flora (1816), the 1730 eruption on Lanzarote (1818) and temperature (1820), with additional chapters on population, land area and economics, the measurement of altitude, mineralogy, and detailed comparative data on volcanoes around the world. The substantial introduction includes a journal that records Buch's enthusiasm for the islands' scenery, natural history and people, and an obituary of Smith, who died in 1816 on a research trip to the Congo.

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