Active Volcanoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean
Piton de la Fournaise and Karthala
Editors: Bachelery, P., Lenat, J.-F., Di Muro, A., Michon, L. (Eds.)
- State-of-the-art advances of the geological setting of Piton de la Fournaise and Karthala (two shield volcanoes in the southwest Indian Ocean) Piton de la Fournaise is certainly one of the most studied volcanoes in the world Work presents geological, geophysical, geochemical and petrological aspects as well as studies on physical geography, natural hazards and the sociological and behavioural approaches
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Piton de la Fournaise and Karthala are both shield volcanoes in the southwest Indian Ocean. This publication summarizes the work done on these very active basaltic volcanoes. Piton de la Fournaise has a long history of scientific research and monitoring, with many data collected during recent eruptions. It is certainly one of the most studied volcanoes in the world. The work presented in this monograph includes geological, geophysical, geochemical and petrological aspects, but also studies on physical geography, natural hazards and the sociological and behavioural approaches.'
The Karthala volcano may be less well known, but it serves as an interesting comparison to Piton de la Fournaise. Although situated close to the volcanoes of Hawaii, it differs from them by its more alkaline magmas and less frequent activity. It was also monitored for more than 25 years, producing extraordinary eruptions in recent years.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Active Volcanoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean
- Book Subtitle
- Piton de la Fournaise and Karthala
- Editors
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- Patrick Bachelery
- Jean-François Lenat
- Andrea Di Muro
- Laurent Michon
- Series Title
- Active Volcanoes of the World
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-31395-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-31395-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-31394-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-50957-9
- Series ISSN
- 2195-3589
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 428
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 53 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
- Topics
