This page contains relevant links from the Volcanic Links page, as well as new links which go into this topic in more detail.

Please read through and make notes on all of this material before our next meeting.

Volcano software

• Erupt: volcanic eruption simulation. Download the free software and install it on your PC. Try experimenting with the software. For an introduction to the range of processes which can be simulated, go to the Parameters menu, select Auto, click OK, then sit back and watch. Later, you will be given instructions for an assignment based on this software.

Volcano video clips

• Movie: Volcanic Ash Fallout Read the explanatory text before and after playing the movie
• Slide show : Damage Caused by Ash Fallout Read the explanatory text before and after playing the movie
• Movie: Oceanic Volcano - explosive interaction of basaltic magma with sea water

Volcanic hazards

• How BIG are Volcanic Eruptions? - the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI)
• Volcanic Eruptions, Blasts, Plumes, Ballistics, etc.
• Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) - try this exercise

Ash fall

• Tephra and Pyroclastic Rocks
• Pyroclastic fallout
• Ash and Tephra
• Scoria cones
• Plinian eruption (USGS)

Hazards from ash fall

• What is volcanic ash? GNS Science, New Zealand
• Ash fall GNS Science, New Zealand
• Volcanic ash and respiratory symptoms in children on the island of Montserrat, British West Indies
• Volcanic Ash Fall—A "Hard Rain" of Abrasive Particles (USGS Fact Sheet)
• Volcanic Ash Clouds and Aircraft Safety
• Volcanic Ash—Danger to Aircraft in the North Pacific (USGS Fact Sheet)

Examples

• Explosive Eruptions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i? (USGS Fact Sheet)
• Pyroclastic eruptions at Mt Oyama, Japan
• Mount St Helens 1980 ash plume map
• Satellite images of the Pinatubo eruption

Volcanology for Global Hazards. University of Derby.