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The 1994–present eruption of Popocatépetl volcano: Background, current activity, and impacts
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Authors
H. Delgado Granados, Servando De la Cruz-Reyna, Robert I. Tilling
Hawaiian oral tradition describes 400 years of volcanic activity at Kilauea
Culturally significant oral tradition involving Pele, the Hawaiian volcano deity, and her youngest sister Hi'iaka may involve the two largest volcanic events to have taken place in Hawai'i since human settlement: the roughly 60-year-long ‘Ailā’au eruption during the 15th century and the following development of Kīlauea's caldera. In 1823, Rev. William Ellis and three others became the first Europe
Authors
Donald A. Swanson
Geologic hazards at volcanoes
Most volcano hazards are associated with eruptions. However, some hazards, such as lahars and debris avalanches, can occur even when a volcano is not erupting.
Authors
Bobbie Myers, Carolyn L. Driedger
Eruptions in the Cascade Range during the past 4,000 years
Volcanoes have been erupting in the Cascade Range for over 500,000 years. During the past 4,000 years eruptions have occurred at an average rate of about 2 per century.
This chart shows 13 volcanoes on a map of Washington, Oregon, and northern California and time lines for each showing the ages of their eruptions.
Authors
Bobbie Myers, Carolyn L. Driedger
Mobility statistics and automated hazard mapping for debris flows and rock avalanches
Power-law equations that are physically motivated and statistically tested and calibrated provide a basis for forecasting areas likely to be inundated by debris flows, rock avalanches, and lahars with diverse volumes. The equations A=α1V2/3 and B=α2V2/3 are based on the postulate that the maximum valley cross-sectional area (A) and total valley planimetric area (B) likely to be inundated by a flow
Authors
Julia P. Griswold, Richard M. Iverson
Catalog of Mount St. Helens 2004 - 2005 tephra samples with major- and trace-element geochemistry
This open-file report presents a catalog of information about 135 ash samples along with geochemical analyses of bulk ash, glass and individual mineral grains from tephra deposited as a result of volcanic activity at Mount St. Helens, Washington, from October 1, 2004 until August 15, 2005. This data, in conjunction with that in a companion report on 2004-2007 Mount St. Helens dome samples by Thorn
Authors
Michael C. Rowe, Carl R. Thornber, Daniel J. Gooding, John S. Pallister
Catalog of Mount St. Helens 2004-2007 dome samples with major- and trace-element chemistry
Sampling and analysis of eruptive products at Mount St. Helens is an integral part of volcano monitoring efforts conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey?s Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO). The objective of our eruption sampling program is to enable petrological assessments of pre-eruptive magmatic conditions, critical for ascertaining mechanisms for eruption triggering and forecasting potential
Authors
Carl R. Thornber, John S. Pallister, Michael C. Rowe, Siobhan McConnell, Trystan M. Herriott, Alison Eckberg, Winston C. Stokes, Diane Johnson Cornelius, Richard M. Conrey, Tammy Hannah, Joseph E. Taggart, Monique Adams, Paul J. Lamothe, James R. Budahn, Charles M. Knaack
Active volcanoes of the Kurile Islands: A reference guide for aviation users
The many volcanoes of the remote and mostly uninhabited Kurile Island arc (fig. 1; table 1) pose a serious hazard for air traffic in the North Pacific. Ash clouds from Kurile eruptions can impact some of the busiest air travel routes in the world and drift quickly into airspace managed by three countries: Russia, Japan, and the United States. Prevailing westerly winds throughout the region will mo
Authors
Christina A. Neal, Alexander Rybin, Marina Chibisova, Edward Miller
Pacific Ocean and Cenozoic evolution of climate
The Pacific Ocean has played a major role in climate evolution throughout the Cenozoic (65–0 Ma). It is a fundamental component of global heat transport and circulation, the dominant locus of primary productivity, and, consequently, the largest reservoir for carbon exchange between the oceans and the atmosphere. A satisfactory understanding of the Cenozoic evolutionary history of the Pacific and i
Authors
Mitchell Lyle, John A. Barron, Timothy J. Bralower, Matthew Huber, Annette Olivarez Lyle, A. C. Ravelo, David K. Rea, Paul A. Wilson
Publications of the Volcano Hazards Program 2006
The Volcano Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is part of the Geologic Hazards Assessments subactivity as funded by Congressional appropriation. Investigations are carried out in the Geology and Hydrology Disciplines of the USGS and with cooperators at the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, University of Ha
Authors
Manuel Nathenson
Major and EDXRF Trace Element Chemical Analyses of Volcanic Rocks from Lassen Volcanic National Park and Vicinity, California
This open-file report presents WDXRF major-element chemical data for late Pliocene to Holocene volcanic rocks collected from Lassen Volcanic National Park and vicinity, California. Data for Rb, Sr, Ba, Y, Zr, Nb, Ni, Cr, Zn and Cu obtained by EDXRF are included for many samples. Data are presented in an EXCEL spreadsheet and are keyed to rock units as displayed on the Geologic Map of Lassen Volcan
Authors
Michael A. Clynne, L. J. P. Muffler, D. F. Siems, J.E. Taggart, Peggy Bruggman
Chemical Analyses of Pre-Holocene Rocks from Medicine Lake Volcano and Vicinity, Northern California
Chemical analyses are presented in an accompanying table (Table 1) for more than 600 pre-Holocene rocks collected at and near Medicine Lake Volcano, northern California. The data include major-element X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses for all of the rocks plus XRF trace element data for most samples, and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) trace element data for many samples. In additi
Authors
Julie M. Donnelly-Nolan