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Mount Rainier : active Cascade volcano : research strategies for mitigating risk from a high, snow-clad volcano in a populous region / U.S. Geodynamics Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- U.S. Geodynamics Committee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Volcanic hazard analysis--Washington (State)--Rainier, Mount, Region.
- Volcanic hazard analysis.
- Rainier, Mount (Wash.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume develops a research plan to study and monitor Mount Rainier, an active Cascade volcano located about 35 km southeast of the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area. The book also addresses issues of communication and coordination among geoscientists, social scientists, planners, and responsible authorities, so that research results can be used to support hazard reduction efforts.
- Contents:
- Intro
- MOUNT RAINIER
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- RESEARCH
- VOLCANO MONITORING
- MITIGATION
- IMPLEMENTATION
- 2 MOUNT RAINIER, ACTIVE CASCADE VOLCANO
- VOLCANIC HAZARDS AT MOUNT RAINIER
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- 3 DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY OF MOUNT RAINIER
- REGIONAL SETTING AND HISTORY
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE VOLCANIC EDIFICE
- REGIONAL STUDIES TO ASSESS VOLCANIC HAZARDS
- Geologic Mapping
- Petrology and Geochemistry
- Geophysics
- Drilling
- HAZARD STUDIES
- Lahars
- Edifice Collapse
- 4 VOLCANO MONITORING
- SEISMICITY MONITORING
- MONITORING OF GROUND DEFORMATION
- MONITORING OF HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY
- MONITORING CHANGES IN SURFACE APPEARANCE
- DETECTION OF STREAM FLOW AND DEBRIS FLOWS
- 5 MITIGATION: COEXISTING WITH MOUNT RAINIER
- COMMUNICATION
- PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
- Social Aspects of Mitigation
- 6 IMPLEMENTATION
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX A GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACT OF STATE OF WASHINGTON
- APPENDIX B SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND COLLECTING IN MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
- APPENDIX C WORKSHOP ATTENDEES.
- Notes:
- Support was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Geological Survey.
- Committee chair : Robin Brett.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-103).
- ISBN:
- 9786610193462
- 9781280193460
- 1280193468
- 9780309586894
- 0309586895
- 9780585028705
- 0585028702
- OCLC:
- 62391202
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