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Living with a volcano in your backyard; volcanic hazards at Mount Rainier
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J. S. Walder, C. L. Driedger
History and hazards of Mount Rainier, Washington
Mount Rainier is an active volcano that first erupted about half a million years ago. Because of Rainier's great height (14,410 feet above sea level) and northerly location, glaciers have cut deeply into its lavas, making it appear deceptively older than it actually is. Mount Rainier is known to have erupted as recently as in the 1840s, and large eruptions took place as recently as about 1,000 and
Authors
Thomas W. Sisson
A numerical program for steady-state flow of Hawaiian magma-gas mixtures through vertical eruptive conduits
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L.G. Mastin
Seismic imaging of Kilauea volcano and Loihi Seamount: 1994 onshore-offshore experiment data from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory seismic network
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L. S. Kong, P. G. Okubo, S. C. Webb, F. K. Duennebier, M. A. McDonald, W. C. Crawford, J. A. Hildebrand
Estimating heat capacity and heat content of rocks
New heat-capacity measurements are reported for four rock types; Westerly granite from Bradford, RI, andesite from Lake County, OR, peridotite from Sonoma County, CA, and basalt from the Columbia River Group. Measurements were made on powders of the rocks in the temperature range of 340 to about 1000 K.
Our measured heat-capacity values for rocks and other measurements of heat capacity or heat con
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Eugene C. Robertson, Bruch S. Hemingway
Volcanic-hazard zonation for Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1995
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E.W. Wolfe, T. C. Pierson
Volcanic-hazard zonation for Glacier Peak Volcano, Washington
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R. B. Waitt, Larry Mastin, J. E. Beget
The USGS/OFDA Volcano Disaster Assistance Program
An erupting volcano is one of nature's truly spectacular sights. From a distance, or perhaps through the cameras of the news media, we often observe roiling mushroom clouds of ash or flows of incandescent lava issuing from the volcano's throat. If, however, you happen to live near that erupting volcano, your life or livelihood may be endangered and your property at risk of destruction a spectacle
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J.W. Ewert, C.D. Miller
Volcano hazards in the Mount Adams region, Washington
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W. E. Scott, R. M. Iverson, J.W. Vallance, Wes Hildreth
Frequent outburst floods from South Tahoma Glacier, Mount Rainier, USA: Relation to debris flows, meteorological origin, and implications for subglacial hydrology
Destructive debris flows occur frequently at glacierized Mount Rainier volcano, Washington, U.S.A. Twenty-three such flows have occurred in the Tahoma Creek valley since 1967. Hydrologic and geomorphic evidence indicate that all or nearly all of these flows began as outburst floods from South Tahoma Glacier. Flood waters are stored subglacially. The volume of stored water discharged during a typic
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J. S. Walder, C. L. Driedger
Giant blocks in the South Kona landslide, Hawaii
A large field of blocky sea-floor hills, up to 10 km long and 500 m high, are gigantic slide blocks derived from the west flank of Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii. These megablocks are embedded in the toe of the South Kona landslide, which extends ∼80 km seaward from the present coastline to depths of nearly 5 km. A 10–15-km-wide belt of numerous, smaller, 1–3-km-long slide blocks separa
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J. G. Moore, W.B. Bryan, M.H. Beeson, W. R. Normark