Abstract
PROF. HEILPRIN'S latest volume on Martinique is chiefly remarkable for the beautiful photographic plates with which it is illustrated; they give an excellent idea of the features of the great tower of solid lava which for nearly three years has been the centre of interest in the crater of Pele. One of these plates, however (No. xi), seems to have been accidentally printed upside down. In the accompany ing text there is an account of the author's fourth visit to the volcano in June, 1903, and a good deal of somewhat discursive matter regarding the lessons to be learnt from the recent eruptions. The number of points which are still unsettled concerning the mechanism of the explosions and the concomitant phenomena is very large, and the author shows a wise caution in dealing with some of them. He advances the opinion that the tower of Pelée is a volcanic core of ancient consolidation, and not an extrusion of solidified new lava, as the French observers believe. We cannot believe this is at all likely to obtain general acceptance.
The Tower of Pelée. New Studies of the Great Volcano of Martinique.
By Prof. Angelo Heilprin. Pp. 62 + xxii plates. (Philadelphia and London: Lippincott, 1904.)
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F., J. The Tower of Pelée New Studies of the Great Volcano of Martinique . Nature 72, 101 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072101a0
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