Natural Hazards Tephra Fallout Lab

04 Mar 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Leah Michelle Courtland

This lab walks students through using the tephra2 education graphical user interface (gui) to investigate tephra fallout at Colima volcano. By the end of this lab, students should be able to:•understand that every volcanic event is different and so produces a unique deposit•convert from units of...

A Matlab implementation of the Carey and Sparks (1986) model

04 Nov 2015 | Offline Tools | Contributor(s): Sebastien Biass, Gholamohssein Bagheri, Costanza Bonadonna

Download the code on GitHub: https://github.com/e5k/CareySparks86_MatlabFollow updates on: https://e5k.github.io/   This file is a Matlab implementation of the Carey and Sparks (1986) model to estimate i) the plume height above sampling altitude and ii) the wind speed at the...

A new method to identify the vent location of tephra fall deposits based on thickness or maximum clast size measurements (SVL)

17 Apr 2018 | Offline Tools | Contributor(s): Qingyuan Yang, Marcus I Bursik, E Bruce Pitman

This tool presents a new method to identify the vent location of tephra fall deposits based on thickness or maximum clast size measurements. It is temporarily named "svl", which is short for Source Vent Locator. The method estimates the vent location by coupling semi-empirical models...

DEM converter for Titan2D

15 Apr 2011 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

Convert a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) in ASCII format to a Titan2D readable format

Documentation for "Effect of particle entrainment on the runout of pyroclastic density currents"

02 Aug 2016 | *Data Sets/Collections | Contributor(s): Kristen Fauria, Michael Manga, Michael Chamberlain

This is a repository for the data and script used in, "Effect of particle entrainment on the runout of pyroclastic density currents."Here you will find:1. A compilation of splash function experimental data from this study and data that was extracted from seven other studies:...

Geochemistry and Petrology first response draft

28 Aug 2014 | Miscellaneous | Contributor(s): Gudmundur H Gudfinnsson, Armann Hoskuldsson, Níels Örn Óskarsson

Here are the documents which were presented at the meeting on the 27th of August. Please feel free to download, edit, and then update the files stored here.

Implementation of material maps into the Titan2D simulation tool

29 Dec 2013 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Sylvain Charbonnier

These powerpoint slides describe how to create and use a GIS-classified map with varying basal friction angles with the Titan2d simulation tool. Users can also refer to the Titan user manual for additional information.

INQUA–INTAV International Field Conference and Workshop: Crossing New Frontiers

14 Mar 2018 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Marcus I Bursik

The INQUA International Focus Group on Tephrochronology and Volcanism (INTAV) cordially invites you to participate in the Crossing New Frontiers - Tephra Hunt in Transylvania international field conference that aims to continue the long tradition of very successful inter-INQUA congress tephra...

La erupción del volcán Calbuco en 2015: Volcanología, sociedad y ecosistemas

25 Apr 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jorge E. Romero

La erupción del 22-23 de abril de 2015 del Volcán Calbuco tuvo impactos en las actividades sociales y ecosistemas en el sur de Chile y en Argentina, debido a la espesa caída de piroclastos, corrientes calientes de gases y rocas, además de flujos de lodo...

Los depósitos de caída de tefra: Una breve revisión sobre su cuantificación y análisis para la clasificación de erupciones volcánicas explosivas, con ejemplos Latinoamericanos

15 Nov 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jorge E. Romero

La cuantificación de los depósitos volcánicos es una de las herramientas más utilizadas en la actualidad para clasificar la magnitud de la actividad volcánica y determinar los peligros volcánicos asociados. En el caso especial de las erupciones...

Maar-diatremes - a course module

13 Jun 2016 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): Greg A Valentine, Alison Graettinger

Maar-diatremes are one of the most common volcanic landforms on Earth, and represent an end-member type of volcano whose eruptions are dominated by explosive, subsurface magma-water interaction.  Thus they should form an important component of volcanology courses.  The recent decade has...

Mono-Inyo Tephra Database

01 Aug 2017 | *Data Sets/Collections | Contributor(s): Marcus I Bursik

The Mono-Inyo Craters is a zone of active volcanism in California, USA, that extends from Mammoth Mountain and Long Valley caldera in the south to the islands of Mono Lake in the north.  This resource provides the citation for the Mono-Inyo tephra database.  The database can...

Mount St Helens 1980-6 Activity summary

27 Apr 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): William I Rose

This series of two lectures summarizes the sequence of events asssociated with the 1980-86 eruptions of Mount St Helens, Washington State, USA. It is intended as a refresher for students and researchers.Lipman, Peter W., and Mullineaux, Donal R. (eds.), 1981, The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St....

Norma

14 Oct 2012 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Joaquin Alberto Cortes

A tool to calculate the Barth-Niggli and CIPW norms from whole-rock chemistry

Olive

23 Jul 2013 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Joaquin Alberto Cortes

Olive 2.1.1 a simple fractional crystallization calculator.

Petrological INput - Graphical oUtput

27 Feb 2012 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Joaquin Alberto Cortes, Jose L. Palma

A tool to plot geochemical data in petrology

puffin

08 Sep 2010 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Marcus I Bursik, Alejandro Uriel Carbonara, Sean Michael Zawicki, Abani Patra, Renette Jones-Ivey

puffin = a tool to run the volcanic ash dispersal model -- puff -- based on the plume trajectory model -- bent.