Volcanoes of the World: Third EditionThis impressive scientific resource presents up-to-date information on ten thousand years of volcanic activity on Earth. In the decade and a half since the previous edition was published new studies have refined assessments of the ages of many volcanoes, and several thousand new eruptions have been documented. This edition updates the book’s key components: a directory of volcanoes active during the Holocene; a chronology of eruptions over the past ten thousand years; a gazetteer of volcano names, synonyms, and subsidiary features; an extensive list of references; and an introduction placing these data in context. This edition also includes new photographs, data on the most common rock types forming each volcano, information on population densities near volcanoes, and other features, making it the most comprehensive source available on Earth’s dynamic volcanism. |
Contents
Directory of Volcanoes | 47 |
Chronology of Eruptions | 215 |
LargeVolume Holocene Eruptions | 319 |
Fatalities and Evacuations | 329 |
Preliminary List Of Pleistocene Volcanoes | 349 |
Preliminary List Of LargeVolume Pleistocene Eruptions | 361 |
Color Photo Section | 372 |
Gazetteer | 373 |
References | 479 |
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Africa-E Alaska Peninsula Aleutian Antarctica Asama Honshu-Japan Aso Kyushu-Japan Bezymianny Britain-SW Pac Caldera Canary Cerro China-E Cinder cone Colima México Complex volcano Cont Cotopaxi Ecuador Dura Ecuador ERUPTIVE CHARACTERISTICS Ethiopia Etna Italy explosions Fissure vent Fogo Cape Verde Fournaise Galápagos Galeras Colombia Grímsvötn Guatemala Halmahera-Indonesia Historical Hokkaido-Japan Holocene Iceland-SW Indies Island Italy Japan-Honshu Java Kamchatka Katla Iceland-S Kilauea Kilauea Hawaiian Kliuchevskoi Kamchatka Kuril Lake Lava domes lava flows Lesser Luzon-Philippines M-Dy tion VOLCANO Maar Merapi Java México Naka-dake Nevado Nicaragua NUMBER L/T Oshima Izu Is-Japan Piton Pleistocene Pyroclastic cone Radiocarbon rift zone Ryukyu Sangay Ecuador Semeru Java Shield volcano Shiveluch Shiveluch Kamchatka Stratovolcano Stromboli Stromboli Italy Submarine volc Sulawesi-Indonesia Sumatra summit SW flank Synonym tephra tephra layer Thermal feature tion VOLCANO NAME Unnamed US-California US-Oregon US-Washington VEI L/T Vesuvius Italy Villarrica Chile-C Vol VEI Volc Field Volcano Is-Japan VOLCANO NAME Subregion Volcano Number Yasur Vanuatu-SW Pacific Zealand