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THE ground which this little work is intended to cover is so vast that it is impossible for the author to deal with any part of the subject in an adequate manner. Seismology is dismissed in twenty-seven pages, which serve only to give a most misleading impression of the present state of our knowledge of that science. The ninety-nine pages devoted to volcanic eruptions furnish only a short sketch of the subject, such as,may be found in any treatise on geology, though here and there matters not ordinarily treated of in text-books may be met with, such as Fouquées method of collecting gas at fumaroles. The thirty-eight pages devoted to the causes of vulcanism contain summary statements of the views of de Lapparent, Fouqu£, Stanislas Meunier, Gautier and others, the author giving greatest weight to astronomical causes as possibly determining volcanic outbursts! To the phenomena following volcanic eruptions sixteen pages are devoted, while an account of the principal volcanoes of the globe occupies forty-two pages. The description of the Martinique and St. Vincent eruptions has, however, seventy pages devoted to it, and the work concludes with chapters in which vulcanism and the riches of the globe are discussed, such matters as mineral veins, thermal springs, and the occurrence of petroleum being hastily passed in review.
Étude des Phénomènes volcaniques: Tremblements de Terre—Éruptions volcaniques—Le Cataclysme de la Martinique, 1902.
Par François Miron. Pp. viii + 320. (Paris: Ch. Béranger, 1903.)
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Étude des Phénomènes volcaniques: Tremblements de Terre—Éruptions volcaniques—Le Cataclysme de la Martinique, 1902. Nature 68, 6 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068006a0
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