Geology books
Christine Laverne's books
A la conquête des grands fonds
1st edition - April 2011
This book offers to discover the sea bed in a rather novel way. It is a journey into the history of techniques that have allowed to study the bottom of the sea from above and with submersibles. The authors show the main methods and major results developed at each stage of this exploration.
The reader is led into an amazing adventure enhanced by a hundred or so watercolor paintings giving life to measuring instruments, various types of ship, old or modern, submersibles, sailors and scientists at work, as well as bathymetric and geological maps.
Forages sous le pacifique
1st edition - September 2008
French version of Drill me a painting
Drill me a painting
1st edition - September 2008
Through this book written in the spirit of a travellogue, the author wishes to share her passion for deep-sea drilling cruises, all the nationalities represented on board, all the jobs, all the cored samples which land on the deck of the boat, the hours spent describing these rocks, the wonderful teamwork, smiles and daily “hi’s”, the tiny and the great moments of science and friendships far from cultural and political borders.
Living mountains
1st edition - January 2006
Santorini, a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea, exploded violently around 1500 BC, wiping out the entire Minoan civilization. A crater collapsed in Nyiragongo, Zaire, in 1977, unleashing a 40-mile-per-hour lava flow that killed 70 people. A mudflow rich in volcanic ash swept down the slopes of Nevado del Ruiz in 1985, killing 23,000 people in Colombia. Oral and written histories are filled with vivid tales of volcanic calamities, but why do volcanoes occur and how do they work ?
Les volcans. Comment ça marche?
1st edition - July 2003
French version of Living Mountains. How and why volcanoes erupt.
