NSS Convention ~ July 25-30, 2021

USGS Volcano Image

Suggested Reading

  • By Robert I. Tilling, U.S. Geological Survey
St. Pierre on the island of Martinique.

The port city of St. Pierre on the island of Martinique; Mont Pelée is in the background. In 1902, this city was entirely destroyed by pyroclastic flows; about 30,000 people died.

  • Decker, Robert, and Decker, Barbara, 1989, Volcanoes: W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 285 p. (Revised edition).
  • Editors, 1982, Volcano:- in the series Planet Earth, Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books, 176 p.
  • Harris, S.L., 1988, Fire mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes: Missoula, Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 379 p.
  • Heliker, Christina, 1990, Volcanic and seismic hazards on the Island of Hawaii: Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, 48 p.
  • Macdonald, G.A., 1972, Volcanoes: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 510 p.
  • Simkin, Tom, Tilling, R.l., Taggart, J.N., Jones, W.J., and Spall, Henry, compilers, 1989, This dynamic planet: World Map of volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, prepared in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (scale 1 :30,000,000 at equator).
  • Tilling, R.l., Heliker, Christina, and Wright, T.L., 1989, Eruptions of Hawaiian volcanoes: Past, present, and future: Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, 54 p.
  • Tilling, R.l., Topinka, Lyn, and Swanson, D.A., 1990, Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Past, present, and future: Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, 56 p. (Revised edition).
  • Tilling, R.l., 1991, Monitoring active volcanoes: Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, 13 p. (Revised edition).
  • Wood, C.A., and Kienle, Jurgen, 1990, Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada: New York, Cambridge University Press, 354 p.


Links

Science

The Virtual Lava Tube, by Dave Bunnell The Most Dangerous U.S. Volcanoes (NatGeo) Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

JSS Kids - Junior Speleological Society

17 Explosive Volcano Facts! Explore Volcanoes With Nat Geo Kids! Volcanoes for Kids | A fun and engaging introduction to volcanoes for children Geology 101 - Dig into rocks! (NatGeo)
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Geology Field Trip

Geology Field Trip

Weed lies along the boundary between two of California's northernmost geologic provinces: the Klamath Mountains and the High Cascades. Although underlain by different rock types (ancient crystalline rocks in the Klamath and young volcanic rocks in the Cascades) both provinces were formed by the same process: subduction.
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