The Maha Research Series · Book 6
The Volcanic Engine
Living on a Firing Planet
By Mayone Maha Rajan
The engine that builds a habitable planet can also make it dangerous to inhabit.
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About the book
Volcanoes are more than spectacular interruptions. The Volcanic Engine follows the deeper processes that make magma, build land, affect the atmosphere and shape the conditions in which life develops.
The book moves from melt, gas and pressure to the problem of monitoring a system whose most important processes are hidden underground. Case studies connect scientific inference with warning, uncertainty and the lives of people who inhabit volcanic ground.
From planetary habitability and deep-time crises to geothermal energy and present-day exposure, it asks how people can think clearly about an engine that creates and destroys on timescales far beyond a human life.
Who it’s for
For readers of Earth science and natural history who want a connected account of eruption, warning, climate and life on volcanic ground.
Inside the book
- Magma, gas, pressure and eruption
- Monitoring, inference and warning
- Volcanism and planetary habitability
- Calderas, mass extinctions and climate
- Exposure, communities and geothermal energy
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The reading contract
An educational account, not an operational hazard forecast or evacuation guide. Empirical findings, models, speculative proposals and unresolved questions are distinguished.
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