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The purpose of the study was to determine the areal extent of the various volcanic ash formations, to describe them petrographically and to develop means of discriminating them. The ash formations, long known in a general way, had been only casually observed by geologists. Their interpretation and separation from other surficial materials has been much retarded by great differences in the degree o

The Volcano Letter was an informal publication issued at irregular intervals by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) during the years 1925 to 1955. Individual issues contain information on volcanic activity, volcano research, and volcano monitoring in Hawaii. Information on volcanic activity at other locations is also occasionally included.The Volcano Letter was published by HVO through multiple

This work treats chiefly of observed changes in the height of stand of molten lava in the crater of Kilauea. It also takes account of concurrent variations in the apparent energy of eruptive action at the surface of the magma column. With little doubt these conditions vary in a complex periodic way.To explain these periods in part an hypothesis is advanced which depends upon recurrent astronomical

The First Report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is a collection of nine papers. The first provides details of the founding of the Observatory and the second reviews Kīlauea volcanic activity between 1909 and 1911. The next two papers detail the work of the Observatory by Frank Perret and E.S. Shepherd, who both arrived at Kīlauea in the summer of 1911. The third paper focuses on Perret's obse