Volcanoes of the world.

First ed. entered under title: Volcanoes of the world : a regional directory, gazetteer, and chronology of volcanism during the last 10,000 years / Tom Simkin ... [et al.]. Stroudsburg, Pa. : Hutchison Ross. c1981.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [480]-551).

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Machine generated contents note: Previous Summaries -- Sources -- Years Covered -- Maps and Regional Numbering Scheme -- Data Table Summaries -- Directory -- Chronology -- Large-Volume Holocene Eruptions -- Fatalities and Evacuations -- Preliminary List of Pleistocene Volcanoes -- Preliminary List of Large-Volume Pleistocene Eruptions -- Gazetteer -- References -- Volcano Data -- Volcano Name -- Subregion -- Latitude and Longitude -- Elevation -- Population -- Rock Type -- Type (Morphology) -- Volcano Number -- Status -- Eruption Data -- Area of Activity -- Dates: Start and Stop -- Uncertainties -- Dating Techniques -- Duration -- Eruptive Characteristics -- Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) -- Volume of Products (Vol L/T) -- Historical Record: Trends and Cautions -- Volcanoes and Humans -- Volcanoes and Aircraft -- Volcanic Processes -- Volcanism: Magnitude, Frequency, and Global Impacts.

Durations and Paroyxyms -- Episodicity and Periodicity -- Intervals between Eruptions and Associated Hazard Implications -- Conclusions -- References -- Directory of Volcanoes -- Europe to Caucasus (01) -- Africa & Red Sea (02) -- Middle East & Indian Ocean (03) -- New Zealand to Fiji (04) -- Melanesia & Australia (05) -- Indonesia & Andaman Is (06) -- Philippines & SE Asia (07) -- Japan, Taiwan & Marianas (08) -- Kuriles, Kamchatka & Mainland Asia (09 & 10) -- Alaska (11) -- Canada & Western USA (12) -- Pacific Ocean (13) -- Mexico & Central America (14) -- South America (15) -- West Indies (16) -- Iceland & Arctic Ocean (17) -- Atlantic Ocean (18) -- Antarctica & S Sandwich Islands (19) -- Chronology of Eruptions -- Large-Volume Holocene Eruptions -- Explosive Eruptions -- Effusive Eruptions -- Fatalities and Evacuations -- Fatalities -- Evacuations -- Preliminary List of Pleistocene Volcanoes -- Preliminary List of Large-Volume Pleistocene Eruptions.

This impressive scientific resource presents up-to-date information on ten thousand years of volcanic activity on Earth. In the decade and a half since the previous edition was published new studies have refined assessments of the ages of many volcanoes, and several thousand new eruptions have been documented. This edition updates the book's key components: a directory of volcanoes active during the Holocene; a chronology of eruptions over the past ten thousand years; a gazetteer of volcano names, synonyms, and subsidiary features; an extensive list of references; and an introduction placing t.

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