BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 EARTH'S DYNAMIC INTERIOR -- THE PROCESS OF PLATE TECTONICS -- PRINCIPLES OF PLATE TECTONICS -- CONTINENTAL AND OCEANIC CRUST -- PLATE BOUNDARIES -- HOT SPOTS -- PLATE MOTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECTONIC THEORY -- THE PRECURSORS OF MODERN THINKING -- ALFRED WEGENER AND THE CONCEPT OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT -- THE RENEWED INTEREST IN CONTINENTAL DRIFT -- TOWARD A UNIFYING THEORY -- DISSENTING OPINIONS AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS -- PLATE TECTONICS AND THE GEOLOGIC PAST -- THE WILSON CYCLE -- THE SUPERCONTINENT CYCLE -- CONTINENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS -- THE INTERACTIONS OF TECTONICS WITH OTHER SYSTEMS -- EARTH'S OCEANS -- LIFE -- EARTH'S CLIMATE -- OTHER CONCEPTS RELATED TO PLATE TECTONICS -- CONTINENTAL DRIFT -- DIASTROPHISM -- ISOSTASY -- OROGENY -- TECTONICS -- CHAPTER 2 VOLCANOES AND VOLCANISM -- VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS -- LAVA, GAS, AND OTHER HAZARDS -- SIX TYPES OF ERUPTIONS -- TWO 20TH-CENTURY ERUPTIONS -- THE FOUR WORST ERUPTIONS IN HISTORY -- VOLCANO FORECASTING AND WARNING -- SIGNIFICANT VOLCANOES OF THE WORLD -- MOUNT AGUNG -- ASKJA -- MOUNT ASO -- MOUNT CAMEROON -- COTOPAXI -- MOUNT ETNA -- MOUNT FUJI -- MOUNT HEKLA -- MOUNT HOOD -- IRAZU VOLCANO -- IZALCO VOLCANO -- KILAUEA -- KLYUCHEVSKAYA VOLCANO -- KRAKATOA -- LASSEN PEAK -- MAUNA LOA -- MAYON VOLCANO -- MOUNT UNZEN -- MOUNT NYAMULAGIRA -- MOUNT NYIRAGONGO -- OL DOINYO LENGAI -- PARICUTIN -- PAVLOF VOLCANO -- MOUNT PELEE -- VOLCANO PICO DE ORIZABA -- MOUNT PINATUBO -- POPOCATEPETL -- MOUNT RAINIER -- MOUNT RUAPEHU -- MOUNT RUIZ -- MOUNT SAINT HELENS -- TAJUMULCO VOLCANO -- MOUNT TAMBORA -- TEIDE PEAK -- VESUVIUS -- VOLCANIC LANDFORMS -- THE MAJOR TYPES OF VOLCANIC LANDFORMS -- THE DETERMINANTS OF SIZE AND SHAPE -- HOT SPRINGS AND GEYSERS -- VOLCANISM AND TECTONIC ACTIVITY -- VOLCANOES RELATED TO PLATE BOUNDARIES.

INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM -- VOLCANOES AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY -- RELATED CONCEPTS -- BOMB -- FUMAROLE -- KIMBERLITE ERUPTION -- MAGMA -- MOFETTE -- VOLCANIC WINTER -- VOLCANISM -- VOLCANOLOGY -- CHAPTER 3 EARTHQUAKES -- THE NATURE OF EARTHQUAKES -- THE CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES -- THE EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKES -- THE INTENSITY AND MAGNITUDE OF EARTHQUAKES -- THE OCCURRENCE OF EARTHQUAKES -- SIGNIFICANT EARTHQUAKES -- THE ALEPPO EARTHQUAKE OF 1138 -- THE SHAANXI PROVINCE EARTHQUAKE OF 1556 -- THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755 -- THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKES OF 1811-12 -- THE MESSINA EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI -- THE TOKYO-YOKOHAMA EARTHQUAKE OF 1923 -- THE CHILE EARTHQUAKE OF 1960 -- THE ALASKA EARTHQUAKE OF 1964 -- THE ANCASH EARTHQUAKE OF 1970 -- THE TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1976 -- THE MEXICO CITY EARTHQUAKE OF 1985 -- THE SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND EARTHQUAKE OF 1989 -- THE NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE OF 1994 -- THE KOBE EARTHQUAKE OF 1995 -- THE IZMIT EARTHQUAKE OF 1999 -- THE TAIWAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1999 -- THE BHUJ EARTHQUAKE OF 2001 -- THE KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE -- THE SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE OF 2008 -- THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE OF 2010 -- THE STUDY OF EARTHQUAKES -- SEISMIC WAVES -- THE OBSERVATION OF EARTHQUAKES -- EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION -- THE EXPLORATION OF EARTH'S INTERIOR WITH SEISMIC WAVES -- EXTRATERRESTRIAL SEISMIC PHENOMENA -- RELATED CONCEPTS -- CIRCUM-PACIFIC BELT -- FAULT -- RICHTER SCALE -- SEISMIC BELT -- SEISMIC SURVEY -- SEISMOGRAPH -- NOTED THINKERS -- BENO GUTENBERG -- SIR HAROLD JEFFREYS -- AUGUSTUS EDWARD HOUGH LOVE -- JOHN MICHELL -- JOHN MILNE -- HARRY FIELDING REID -- CHARLES F. RICHTER -- THE SCOPE OF TECTONIC FORCES -- GLOSSARY -- FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.