What is a volcano? / edited by Edgardo Cañón-Tapia, Alexandru Szakács.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canon-Tapia, Edgardo.

Szakács, Alexandru, 1950-

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 470.

Special paper ; 470

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Volcanology.

Volcanoes.

Volcanism.

Physical Description:

vii, 140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, [2010]

Contents:

What is a volcano? / Andrea Borgia ... [et al.]

Beyond Earth : how extra-terrestrial volcanism has changed our definition of a volcano / Rosaly M.C. Lopes ... [et al.]

Sedimentary volcanoes : overview and implications for the defintion of a volcano on Earth / A.J. (Tom) van Loon

Monogenetic volcanic fields : origin, sedimentary record, and relationship with polygenetic volcanism / Károly Németh

From a definition of volcano to conceptual volcanology / Alexandru Szakács

Origin of large igneous provinces : the importance of a definition / E. Cañón-Tapia

Do pyroclastics form part of a volcano? : a sedimentologist's view / A.J. (Tom) van Loon

Is Tharsis Rise, Mars, a spreading volcano? / Andrea Borgia and John B. Murray

Some challenging new perspectives of volcanology / Alexandru Szakács and Edgardo Cañón-Tapia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780813724706

0813724708

OCLC:

633139296