General basic information on volcanoes at best. The color photos were the best part of this book.

As a Washingtonian since the mid 1950s, I could not get past the two errors dealing with the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens. On page 26, it is stated, “Hot ash led to fires.” And on page 27 it states, ” Forests were destroyed by lava, which hardened into rock.” Sorry, but no! The mudflows and the force of the pyroclastic blast / flow leveled and destroyed the forests.  Please check with the U.S. Forest Service.

I , also, take issue with the definition for the word ‘dense’ in the glossary on page 31. The glossary states – “dense heavy compared to other objects of the same size.” The Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary defines dense as, “tightly packed…very thick…”