shield volcanoes, 113–114
Singleton, Shelby, 269
Snedeker, James, 276–277
Soufrière eruption, 34, 38, 47, 51–53, 60
South America, 34, 101, 103, 134, 155
Spalding, Walter, 184, 190
Stewart, Dugald, 16
Stewart, Richard, 259, 260
Stokes, Clement, 53
Stone, Charles, 132–134
Story of Our Planet, The, 134
stratovolcanoes, 113
Strzelecki, Pawel Edmund, 112
Stromboli volcano, 145, 155
Sumner, William Graham, 4
Sweeny, Harry, 91
Swinburne, Charles Henry, 56
T
Tarumai volcano, 119
Taylor, Truman, 217–218
Technology Crater, 95
temperatures, measuring, 134–143, 152, 173, 191–197
Text-book of Geology, 134
thermodynamics, 134–135
thermometers, 21, 41, 100, 136–143, 173
Thomas A. Jaggar Museum, 286
Thurston, Asa, 126
Thurston, Lorrin, 118, 122, 126–131, 136, 139–153, 156, 160–161, 164, 179, 182–188, 190–193, 197–198, 216–219, 245, 256
Thurston, Lucy, 126
tsunamis, xxii, 262–268
Tully, Richard, 160
Twain, Mark, 1, 127
Twigg-Smith, William, 190, 192
U
Underwood, Oscar, 40
United States Geological Survey, 32, 42, 104, 252–253, 279–280, 285
United States Weather Bureau, 50, 202–205, 211, 252, 272
V
Van Dyke, Edwin, 91, 96
Vancouver, George, 223
Vesuvius. See Mount Vesuvius
volcanic gases, 153–160, 171, 181, 194, 222, 228, 231, 251, 278, 286
volcanic glass, 114–116, 138, 140, 191, 196
Volcano House Register, 117, 149, 157
volcano observatory, 122–123. See also Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Volcanoes Declare War, 278
Volcanoes of North America, 42
Volcanoes: What They Are and What They Teach, 134
von Zittel, Karl Alfred, 26
Voyage of the Beagle, 24
W
Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 32–33
Washington Post, 28
Weather Bureau, 50, 202–205, 211, 252, 272
Whitman, Charles Otis, 87
Whitney, Anne Rebecca, 132–133, 161
Whitney, Caroline Rogers, 132
“Whitney Vault,” 161, 163, 170, 278
Wilkes, Charles, 224
Wilson, Woodrow, 181
Wingate, Edward, 269
Wood, Harry Oscar, 162–164, 174, 181–183, 198, 278
World War I, 179, 205, 219, 245
World War II, xxii, 270–279
Y
Yasunaka, Francis Kaneaki, 273–274
Yasunaka, Gary, 276
Yasunaka, Hideichi, 272–276
Yasunaka, Shizuka, 271–276
Yatchmenoff, Peter, 254
Yellowstone National Park, 19–25, 28–30
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