"This volume is the latest work of a collaborative effort by the authors that has extended for over thirty years. Both authors originate in South Wales, UK and met coincidentally early in their careers, when they independently decided to carry out the same study on the same volcano, on Mt. Pelee, Martinique in 1971. This became the first of many collaborative studies that led them to write about the geology of almost all of the Caribbean islands, especially those with volcanic rocks."--BOOK JACKET