Synopsis
The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Third Edition, an updated edition of the PROSE award winning title, summarizes our knowledge on volcanoes. The book provides a comprehensive source on the causes of volcanic eruptions with both destructive and beneficial effects. This new edition illustrates the best approaches to characterize key aspects of volcanology, demonstrates the importance of volcanology for a sustainable planet, and was developed by a multidisciplinary, multi-gender, and multi-cultural team of both editors and authors. This is a necessary reference for students, academics, and professionals in volcanology and Earth science to understand and characterize the effects and role played by volcanoes.
- Provides a comprehensive reference work on all aspects of volcanology
- Explores an integrated transition from the physical process of eruptions through hazards and risk and how volcanoes play a role in global sustainability
- Presents hundreds of color photographs, maps, charts, and illustrations, making this an aesthetically appealing reference
- Includes a glossary of 3,000 key terms with definitions of all key vocabulary items in the field
- Incorporates significantly expanded material on the role of volcanoes in the global cycle, sustainability, and energy
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About the Authors
Costanza Bonadonna is professor of physical volcanology hazard and risk at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; head of the CERG-C program on the assessment and management of geological and climate-related risks; vice-dean of the Faculty of Sciences; and President-elect of Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology, American Geophysical Union. Her main research interests include the physical characterization of volcanic processes, the probability assessment of volcanic hazards and the characterization of both vulnerability and risk. She is also active in the linkage between model development and risk assessment and mitigation in the effort of bridging the gap between scientists and non-scientists (e.g. emergency management planners, government officials). She is well known for her multidisciplinary scientific approaches and her involvement in the international effort for risk reduction.
Luca Caricchi is Professor of volcanology and petrology at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Geneva, switzerland. He is the Swiss national IAVCEI representative and is a member of the Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing System commission of IAVCEI. He uses a combination of fieldwork, petrography, geochemistry, machine learning and statistics to quantify the rates of magma accumulation in volcanic plumbing systems and determine their modulating effect on the frequency, magnitude and intensity of volcanic eruptions. His research also focuses on magma-fluid interaction and the quantification of magmatic processes controlling the formation and distribution of ore deposits.
Amanda Clarke is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, USA. Her research focuses on the dynamics of volcanic eruptions, especially short-lived, highly-unsteady explosive eruptions, and dome-building systems. The Clarke group also explores pyroclastic deposits and lava flows on Earth, Mars, and the Moon, highly-explosive basaltic volcanism, cinder cone erosion and volcanic geomorphology, eruption triggering and interaction between geologic processes such as earthquake-triggered volcanic activity and the role of volcanic volatiles in atmospheric forcing. Her group uses a range of techniques to investigate volcanic processes, including numerical models, laboratory experiments, field and satellite observations of. She has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, in the San Francisco Volcanic Field (AZ), at Mount St Helens (WA), in the Pinacate Volcanic Field Mexico, the Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat, and several other volcanic sites.
Dr Paul Cole is Associate Professor of volcanology at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK. He holds BSc in Geology and a PhD in Volcanology, and has held post-doctoral research positions at the Universita di Napoli, Italy and University College London, UK. He has worked on active volcanoes extensively in Italy, the Azores, Central America and the Caribbean. Between 2009 and 2012 was Director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory, working for the University of the West Indies. His research is very much focussed on field based aspects of volcanic products and their interpretation in terms of their associated processes and mechanisms.
Professor Jan Lindsay is a volcanologist in the School of Environment at Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has held positions at GNS Science in Taupō, the GeoResearch Centre (GFZ) in Potsdam, Germany, and the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. She is Vice President of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) and is co-leader of the IAVCEI working Group on Volcanic Hazard Mapping. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Volcanology. She is a Past President of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand and co-leads the long-running DEVORA project, Determining Volcanic Risk in Auckland. Over her career she has worked on projects in the broad area of volcanic geology, hazard and risk in Aotearoa New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, the Lesser Antilles, Hawai’i and Saudi Arabia. Her leading role in the IAVCEI will facilitate the collaboration with the volcanogy community.
From the Back Cover
The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Third Edition is an updated edition of the PROSE award winning title, which summarizes our present knowledge of volcanoes; it provides a comprehensive source of information on the causes of volcanic eruptions and both the destructive and beneficial effects. This new edition illustrates the best approaches to characterize key aspects of volcanology, demonstrates the importance of volcanology for a sustainable planet, and has been developed by a multi-disciplinary, multi-gender and multi-cultural teams of both editors and authors.
The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Third Edition is a necessary reference for students, academics and professionals in volcanology and Earth science to understand and characterize the effects and role played by volcanoes, much as the previous editions were before it.
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