LENTZ, H. M., III. 1999. The Volcano Registry. Names, Locations, Descriptions and Histories for Over 1500 Sites. ix+190 pp. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Inc.; distributed in the UK by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2BH. Price £26.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 7864 0732 8.

Abstract

The Volcano Registry is, as its name suggests, an alphabetical register of the known volcanoes of the world. It clearly owes much of its content to the efforts of the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program, in particular their directory and gazetteer Volcanoes of the World. (The casual reader might be forgiven for not gleaning this from the …