virtual-geology.info

Volcano Links

Mount Rainier, a large stratovolcano in Washington State in the northwest USA. Image: Roger Suthren

MAIN VOLCANO SITES

• Cascades Volcano Observatory - Volcanoes
• Global Volcanism Program Smithsonian Institution
• Michigan Technical University Volcanoes Page
• The Electronic Volcano
• Volcanoes: The Geological Society
• Volcano Information Center (VIC) (RV Fisher, University of California at Santa Barbara) - on-line "text book" with descriptions and illustrations of all the main types of volcanoes, hazards etc.
• VolcanoWorld Home Page
• Volcanoes.com
  

CURRENT VOLCANIC ACTIVITY

• Global Volcanism Program: Volcanic Activity Reports
• SSEC Real-Time Satellite Images- Volcano Watch
• Current alerts for US volcanoes
  

PYROCLASTIC & VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS

• Volcaniclastics - Santa Barbara
• RV Fisher - Hydrovolcanic processes
• RV Fisher - Pyroclastic fallout
• RV Fisher - Pyroclastic flows
• R V Fisher - Deposits of pyroclastic sediment gravity flows
• Volcanoes, Snow, and Water - USGS
  

VOLCANO IMAGES

• Volcano images at Corbis
• Solarviews.com - volcanoes on Earth and other planets
• EOS Volcanology slide sets
• British Geological Survey - GeoScenic - National Archive of Geological Photographs - search the collection

VOLCANO LEARNING MATERIALS

• Volcano forms - RV Fisher
• Volcanoes - Annenberg Project
• Volcanoes - online booklet by Robert I. Tilling
• USGS Science Resources for Undergraduate Education
  

VOLCANO HAZARDS, MONITORING & PREDICTION

• Monitoring Active Volcanoes: Monitoring Techniques [USGS]
• READY VAFTAD - Volcanic Ash Forecast Transport And Dispersion
• TOMS Volcanic Emissions measurement
• USGS Volcano Hazards Program
• Volcanic ash impact - USGS (2.5 minute video)
• Volcanic Ash Clouds and Aircraft Safety
• Volcano Web Shorts 6: Societal Impacts of Volcanism (2 minute USGS video on applications of GIS)
• Volcano Web Shorts 3: Seismology to mitigate volcanic hazards (2.5 minute USGS video)
• Volcano Web Shorts 2: Debris Flows (3.5 minute USGS video)
• Volcano Web Shorts 1: Photogrammetry (2.5 minute USGS video)
• Volcano Monitoring Animations #1: Volcano Deformation (1 minute USGS video)
• Volcano Monitoring Animation #2: Gas Monitoring (1 minute USGS video)

VOLCANO MOVIES

USGS volcano videos
USGS volcano videos - Kilauea
USGS volcano videos - Mauna Loa
USGS volcano videos - Mount St Helens
Volcano movie clips

VOLCANO ORGANIZATIONS

Commission on Volcanogenic Sedimentation
IAVCEI Homepage
Observatoires Volcanologiques francais
European Volcanological Society
USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), Home Page

VOLCANO PUBLICATIONS

VOLCANO REMOTE SENSING

NASA Earth Observatory - Natural Hazards - Volcanoes: images of current eruptions
GOES Volcanoes watch - weather satellite images and movies of volcanoes
READY - NOAA R eal-time E nvironmental A pplications and D isplay s Y stem
NASA EOS IDS Volcanology
GOES 9 Volcano Hotspot images: Tracking Lava Flows on Hawaii
SSEC Real-time Data - Volcano Watch

VOLCANOES & CLIMATE

Ben Franklin 1784 - climatic effects of Laki
Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre
USGS Global Change Research Program
Volcanoes and Global Climate Change
A time-averaged inventory of subaerial volcanic sulfur emissions

VOLCANOES BY COUNTRY/REGION

ANTARCTICA

Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory Homepage

AUSTRALIA

Volcanoes of Australia
Mineralogy and Petrology - VOLCANOES IN VICTORIA

CARIBBEAN

Montserrat Volcano Observatory
Montserrat Volcano Observatory - Pyroclastic flow movies
Soufrière Hills, Montserrat
Villa Virginia, Spanish Point, Montserrat

CENTRAL AMERICA

MTU Volcanoes Page - El Salvador Volcanoes

CHILE

Villaricca (Chile)

COLOMBIA

SIR-C/X-SAR image Galeras Volcano, Colombia

FRANCE

Chaine des Puys

GERMANY

Eifel region

ICELAND

Volcanoes in Iceland
Volcano in Iceland - flash flood from Eyjafjallajökull glacier (YouTube video)
Photographs of Iceland volcanoes by Dave McGarvie
Iceland Field Trip guides (IAVCEI 2008)
Updates on the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, 2010
Eyjafjallajökull eruption - information from British Geological Survey

ITALY

Italy's Volcanoes
Explore Italian Volcanoes
Volcanological Excursion to Campi Flegrei

JAPAN

Current Eruptions in Japan
HAKONE HOME PAGE - Volcano Research Center (VRC), Japan
Unzen home page

MEXICO

Conviviendo Con Los Volcanes (Living with Volcanoes) - Mexico
Popacatepetl - CENAPRED Home page

NEW ZEALAND

IGNS - Volcanoes in New Zealand
Ruapehu eruptions: images and video clips (Massey University)

PHILIPPINES

PINATUBO VOLCANO "The Sleeping Giant Awakens"
Taal Page - U Aachen

USA

Alaska Volcano Observatory
Alaska Seismology - Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Axial Seamount Volcanic Event, January, 1998
Cascade Range Volcanoes
Cascades Volcano Observatory HOME PAGE
Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes online book [USGS]
Life Stages of Hawaiian Volcanoes
Loihi Seamount - Hawaii Center for Volcanology Home Page
Long Valley Caldera
Long Valley Caldera
Long Valley Response page
Mount St. Helens - USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
Mount St. Helens - 1980 Debris Avalanche
Mount St. Helens online book [USGS]
Oregon Volcanoes
Resurgent Calderas and the Valles Caldera
U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Volcano Watch - Hawaii
Volcanoes of the United States online book [USGS]
The Yellowstone Volcano: Past, Present and Future (USGS: 1 hour online lecture)

This page is maintained by Roger Suthren. Last updated 15 October, 2014 11:03 PM