Neapolitan Volcanoes

Author : Stefano Carlino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319928777

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Neapolitan Volcanoes by Stefano Carlino Pdf

This book serves as a guide to discovering the most interesting volcano sites in Italy. Accompanied by some extraordinary contemporary images of active Neapolitan volcanoes, it explains the main volcanic processes that have been shaping the landscape of the Campania region and influencing human settlements in this area since Greek and Roman times and that have prompted leading international scientists to visit and study this natural volcanology laboratory. While volcanology is the central topic, the book also addresses other aspects related to the area’s volcanism and is divided into three sections: 1) Neapolitan volcanic activity and processes (with a general introduction to volcanology and its development around Naples together with descriptions of the landscape and the main sites worth visiting); 2) Volcanoes and their interactions with local human settlements since the Bronze Age, recent population growth and the transformation of the territory; 3) The risks posed by Neapolitan Volcanoes, their recent activity and the problem of forecasting any future eruption.

Author : Derek Keir,Luca De Siena,Cecile Doubre,Jessica Helen Johnson,Francesco Maccaferri,Luigi Passarelli
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889743308

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Seismicity in Volcanic Areas by Derek Keir,Luca De Siena,Cecile Doubre,Jessica Helen Johnson,Francesco Maccaferri,Luigi Passarelli Pdf

Author : Roger N. Scoon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030546939

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The Geotraveller by Roger N. Scoon Pdf

This book describes famous geosites and historical localities in national parks and conservation areas from North America, East Africa, and Europe. The geosites include iconic landforms associated with active volcanoes, canyons, glaciated landscapes, natural rock monoliths, and rifts. The potential for geotourism in historical localities such as the famous Greco-Roman antiquities of Greece, Italy, and Turkey, is emphasised. Some of the geosites and historical localities provide evidence that previous civilizations coped with active geology and major climatic cycles, whilst others reveal evidence of famous geological events recognized in history and ancient mythology that helped shape our current civilization. The book assists tour guides and visitors (both geologists and non-specialists) interested in geotourism by providing an understanding of geological processes in the national parks and historical locations with the assistance of photographs and simplified geological maps.

Author : Gianluca Groppelli,Lothar Viereck-Goette
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724645

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Stratigraphy and Geology of Volcanic Areas by Gianluca Groppelli,Lothar Viereck-Goette Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM, entitled Supplementary materials to Stratigraphy and geology of volcanic areas, includes three geologic maps in Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Author : Henry James Johnston-Lavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Volcanoes
ISBN : UOM:39015067312507

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The South Italian Volcanoes by Henry James Johnston-Lavis Pdf

Author : H. J. Johnston Lavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89093175271

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The South Italian Volcanoes by H. J. Johnston Lavis Pdf

Author : Susan C. Loughlin,Robert Stephen John Sparks,Steve Sparks,Sarah K. Brown,Susanna F. Jenkins,Charlotte Vye-Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107111752

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Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk by Susan C. Loughlin,Robert Stephen John Sparks,Steve Sparks,Sarah K. Brown,Susanna F. Jenkins,Charlotte Vye-Brown Pdf

The first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk, with detailed regional profiles, for the disaster risk reduction community. Also available as Open Access.

Author : Luigi Beccaluva,Gianluca Bianchini,B. Marjorie Wilson,Marjorie Wilson
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724188

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Cenozoic Volcanism in the Mediterranean Area by Luigi Beccaluva,Gianluca Bianchini,B. Marjorie Wilson,Marjorie Wilson Pdf

Author : R. Funiciello,Guido Giordano
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Alban Hills (Italy)
ISBN : 1862393079

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The Colli Albani Volcano by R. Funiciello,Guido Giordano Pdf

The Colli Albani Volcano contains 21 scientific contributions on stratigraphy, volcanotectonics, geochronology, petrography and geochemistry, hydrogeology, volcanic hazards, geophysics and archaeology, and a new 1:50 000 scale geological map of the volcano. The proximity to Rome and the interconnection between volcanic and human history also make this volcano of interest for both specialists and non-specialists.

Author : E. Marotta,L. D'Auria,F. Zaniboni,R. Nave
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786205650

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Volcanic Island: from Hazard Assessment to Risk Mitigation by E. Marotta,L. D'Auria,F. Zaniboni,R. Nave Pdf

Co-published with IAVCEI This Special Publication is a contribution from The Cities and Volcanoes Commission of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior. The Commission’s role is to encourage the exchange of experiences on volcanic islands to identify best practice in hazard assessment, monitoring techniques and risk mitigation strategies. The volume contains nine papers from internationally recognized authors that present studies undertaken on Ischia Island and Stromboli in the Mediterranean Sea, Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. This volume will be of interest to all scientists working in the assessment of volcanic hazard and risk mitigation.

Author : Andrea Bevilacqua
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9788876425776

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Doubly Stochastic Models for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Campi Flegrei Caldera by Andrea Bevilacqua Pdf

This study provides innovative mathematical models for assessing the eruption probability and associated volcanic hazards, and applies them to the Campi Flegrei caldera in Italy. Throughout the book, significant attention is devoted to quantifying the sources of uncertainty affecting the forecast estimates. The Campi Flegrei caldera is certainly one of the world’s highest-risk volcanoes, with more than 70 eruptions over the last 15,000 years, prevalently explosive ones of varying magnitude, intensity and vent location. In the second half of the twentieth century the volcano apparently once again entered a phase of unrest that continues to the present. Hundreds of thousands of people live inside the caldera and over a million more in the nearby city of Naples, making a future eruption of Campi Flegrei an event with potentially catastrophic consequences at the national and European levels.

Author : Benedetto De Vivo,Harvey E. Belkin,Giuseppe Rolandi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128175187

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Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Campanian Volcanism by Benedetto De Vivo,Harvey E. Belkin,Giuseppe Rolandi Pdf

Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Campanian Volcanism communicates the state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on past and active volcanism in an area characterized by elevated risk due to high-density population. Eruptions, lahars and poisonous gas clouds have killed many thousands of people over recorded history, but volcanoes have given people some of the most fertile soil known in agriculture. The research presented in this book is useful for policymakers and researchers from these and other countries who are looking for risk assessment and volcanic evolution models they can apply to similar situations around the world. Naples and its surrounding area, in particular, the area situated between Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei volcanic area has a population in excess of 4 million people. The volcanic areas that have similarly large populations in proximity to dormant, but hazardous volcanoes, i.e., Indonesia and Central America can also benefit from this work. Covers the fundamental science of volcanoes, including new developments in the last decade relating to the use of crystals and melt inclusions to model the nature and evolution of volatiles Includes the latest research on volcanism in Southern Italy that is presented as a case study for active and inactive volcanoes across the globe Presents research that is applicable around the world, for people, scientists and policymakers living on, or near, active volcanoes

Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317085393

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Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples by Anthony R. DelDonna Pdf

The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society. The considerable resonance of 'Neapolitan' opera in Europe was verified early in the eighteenth century not only through voluminous reports offered by locals and visitors in gazettes, newspapers, correspondence or diaries, but also, and more importantly, through the rich and tangible artistic patrimony produced for local audiences and then exported to the Italian peninsula and abroad. Naples was not simply a city of entertainment, but rather a cultural epicenter and paradigm producing highly innovative and successful genres of stage drama reflecting every facet of contemporary society. Anthony R. DelDonna provides a rich study of operatic culture from 1775-1800. The book demonstrates how contemporary stage traditions, stimulated by the Enlightenment, engaged with and responded to the changing social, political, and artistic contexts of the late eighteenth century in Naples. It focuses on select yet representative compositions from different genres of opera that illuminate the diverse contemporary cultural forces shaping these works and underlining the continued innovation and European recognition of operatic culture in Naples. It also defines how the cultural milieu of Naples - aristocratic and sacred, private and public - exercises a profound yet idiosyncratic influence on the repertory studied, the creation of which could not have occurred elsewhere on the Continent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080481663

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Volcanism in the Campania Plain by Anonim Pdf

The book deals with the study of three important volcanisms in the Campania Plain: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites. The knowledge of the volcanic evolution of Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei has a particular relevance because of the hazards that these volcanoes pose to the about 1.5 million people living in the Neapolitan area. The contributors to the volume bring new data (experiments on volatile solubility, fluid-melt inclusions, tectonic, geophysical, isotope, geochronology), which are helpful in the creation of new models for a better understanding of the behaviour of the volcanic systems. In particular a hydrothermal model is used to explain the ground movements (bradyseism) at Campi Flegrei. To develop such a model, the authors use an analogue for the evolving Campi Flegrei sub-volcanic system, the model of the porphyry mineralized systems. For Campanian Ignimbrite the authors highlight the impact crystal-liquid separation has on melt compositional evolution and particularly focus on trace element and Th isotope evidence for open-system processes in the magma body associated with the Campanian Ignimbrite. The authors, for their interpretations, utilize thermodynamic and quantitative mass balance modelling of major and trace element data and semi-quantitative limits on Th and Sr isotopes to evaluate the role of crytal-melt separation, magma-fluid interaction, and assimilation of wallrock on the geochemical evolution of the Campamian Ignimbrite.

Author : Angelo Peccerillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319424910

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Cenozoic Volcanism in the Tyrrhenian Sea Region by Angelo Peccerillo Pdf

This is an updated edition of the book by the same author: "Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy - Petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics," published in 2005 by Springer. This edition has the same structure as the previous publication, with a general introduction; various chapters dedicated to different volcanic provinces in Italy; and a final chapter on the relationships between magmatism and geodynamics. It includes information that has become available in the last ten years, and new chapters have been added offering detailed discussions of the Oligo-Miocene orogenic volcanism on Sardinia and of some small outcrops of fragmented volcanic rocks occurring in several places of the Apennines. This new edition now covers the entire Tyrrhenian Sea magmatism of the last 40 Ma. Lastly, it includes two appendices: Appendix 1 reports on a comparison between the Tyrrhenian Sea volcanism and the partially coeval magmatism along the Alps and adjoining areas and has the objective of highlighting similarities and difference that can tell us much on geodynamics and magmatism between the converging plates of Europe and Africa. Appendix 2 is an update of the 2005 edition appendix and deals with classification of orogenic rocks with special emphasis on potassic alkaline volcanics.