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Volcanoes of Northern Arizona Paperback – March 13, 2007

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This book provides a popular look at the fiery origin of Northern Arizona’s landscape. With magnificent aerial photographs, original geologic illustrations, and detailed road logs to many of the key features, this book is an indispensable tool for the traveler, the educator, and all who are interested in the remarkable landscape of northern Arizona.
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Michael Collier is a science writer, photographer, and physician who lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. Among his other books is A Land in Motion: California's San Andreas Fault.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Canyon Association; 1st edition (March 13, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 68 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0938216589
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0938216582
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.2 x 7.5 inches
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Through a series of unexpected events, my life moved from small-town rural Minnesota, to a fancy New England Prep school, to Carleton College, and then Stanford where I got a PhD in geology. Ever since, I've been chasing volcanoes ... first for the U. S. Geological Survey and now as an Adjunct Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Being a research scientist and writing technical papers for more than three decades was heady, but at around age sixty I realized that I wanted to communicate with a broader variety of readers than the PhD-toting group. So I started writing popular books and magazine/newspaper essays, some related to volcanoes and some not. All my books are listed at Amazon. You can get the flavor of my other writings by visiting http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/wad3

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2016
    Received the book on time and it was in excellent condition. The book has lots of good information and is written generally enough for people to understand. There are also some nice road logs to guide a trip to see interesting stuff written about in the book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2015
    As an Arizonan it is very interesting discussion of Northern AZ volcanoes.
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016
    Informative and enjoyable.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2001
    Volcanoes are among the most interesting, awesome, and dangerous of geological phenomena. The also form many of the highest mountains we know-Olympus Mons on Mars, Mauna Kea, Popocatepetl, Kilimanjaro and many others on Earth. In spite of this, the average person has only an imprecise idea of what volcanos are and how they work. Duffield's fine book comes to the rescue.
    The book addresses specifically volcanoes to be found in northern Arizona, so includes many pages of road logs intended for the resident or visitor to the area, pleasant excursions whose purpose is to illustrate a wealth of volcanic features. The rest of the book, however, is invaluable to anyone interested in learning more about volcanoes anywhere. Even though Duffield is a professional volcanologist of considerable repute, he uses clear language pleasantly free of technical jargon and aimed at the non-specialist. The many illustrations are lucid and well done, and the wonderful photographs by Michael Collier are a splendid asset.
    The person interested in learning about volcanoes won't go wrong with this fine book.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2001
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    This book is a wonderful introduction to the San Francisco volcanic field, which created the high country around Flagstaff and the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountains in Arizona. Duffield writes in a clear, direct style that's a pleasure to read. The book grew out of a long series of talks and lectures he's given around the Flagstaff - Grand Canyon area -- he quotes a fifth-grader who wrote a thank-you note for "being interesting and not boring," which is a nice capsule review of _Volcanoes_.

    Although he's writing for a general audience, geologists who aren't intimately familiar with Northen Arizona will learn of some neat new discoveries -- such as the remarkable similarity between the Mt. St. Helens blowout and the Peaks' long-puzzling Inner Basin (p. 25). And that recent lava-dams on the Colorado River (near present-day Lava Falls) made lakes in Grand Canyon nearly half a mile deep!

    And anyone with working eyes will be pleased with Michael Collier's splendid aerial photos -- if you're new to Collier, you will want to seek out his beautiful, large-format _Arizona : A View from Above_, which might be the best book of artistic air photos yet published (and which, sadly, is out of print).

    Peter D. Tillman
    Consulting Geologist, Tucson & Santa Fe (USA)
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