A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos, of Earthquakes, and of Thermal Springs

This 1848 study of the world's volcanic regions pioneered a scientific approach to the study of volcanos and earthquakes.

Charles Daubeny (Author)

9781108072984, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 June 2011

796 pages, 40 b/w illus. 11 maps
21.6 x 14 x 4.5 cm, 0.99 kg

Charles Daubeny (1795–1867) first published Active and Extinct Volcanos in 1826. This reissue is of the second, augmented edition of 1848, which the author explains was significantly updated in the light of the work of Charles Darwin. Part I contains geological descriptions of most of the world's known volcanos, arranged by region, many of them based on Daubeny's own observations. Part II contains descriptions of earthquake-prone regions, thermal springs, and thermal waters. In Part III Daubeny introduces his influential theory of the causes of volcanic action, proposing that it results from contact between water and metals beneath the earth's surface. He also discusses the factors that give volcanos particular characteristics, and the impact of volcanos on their environments. This pioneering work of Victorian geology provided the scientific community with some of the first descriptions and data sets on previously unstudied volcanic regions, and is still referred to today.

Preface
Part I. Descriptive Portion: 1. Introductory remarks
2. General nature of volcanic action
3. On the volcanos of France
4. On the volcanos of Germany
5. Volcanic rocks of Hungary
6. Volcanic rocks of Transylvania
7. Volcanic rocks of Stryia
8. Volcanic rocks of northern Italy
9. Central Italy
10. Southern Italy
11. Volcanos of Southern Italy (continued)
12. Southern Italy (continued)
13. Islands of Procida and Ischia
14. Lipari group of islands
15. Volcanic rocks of Sicily, etc.
16. Sardinia, Spain, Portugal
17. Volcanos of Iceland
18. Grecian archipelago
19. Asia Minor
20. Syria, the Holy Land, and Arabia
21. Volcanic phaenomena of Persia and the adjoining countries
22. Volcanos of Central Asia
23. Volcanos of Kamtschatka and the Chinese Seas
24. Indian archipelago
25. Islands in the Pacific Ocean
26. Islands on the Eastern Coast of Africa
27. African continent
28. Islands lying to the west of Africa
29. West Indian archipelago
30. Volcanos of North America, or above the Isthmus of Darien
31. Volcanos of South America, or south of the Isthmus of Darien
Part II. On Phaenomena Not Immediately Arising from Volcanos, but Supposed to Be Connected with them: 32. On earthquakes
33. On earthquakes
34. Thermal springs, their geological position
35. Thermal waters, their gaseous impregnation, etc.
Part III. Deductions from the Foregoing Facts, with Reference to the Causes of Volcanos, the Circumstances that Influence the Character of their Product, and the Uses They Fulfil in the Economy of Nature: 36. General statement of the various theories by means of which the operations of volcanos have been accounted for
37. General inferences respecting the laws or conditions of volcanic action
38. Comparative estimate of the mechanical and chemical theories
39. Statement of the chemical theory of volcanos
40. On the rocks attributed to volcanic agency taking place under circumstances different from those before considered
41. Final causes of volcanos
Appendix
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Earth sciences [RB]