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What Is a Volcano?
Author(s)
Edgardo Cañón-Tapia;
Edgardo Cañón-Tapia
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educacíon Superior de Ensenada, Department of Geology, Baja California, Mexico C.P. 22860
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Alexandru Szakács
Alexandru Szakács
Sapientia University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Romanian Academy, Institute of Geodynamics, Bucharest, Romania
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Geological Society of America

Volume
470
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© 2010 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813724706
Publication date:
August 01, 2010
Book Chapter
What is a volcano?
Author(s)
Andrea Borgia
EDRA via di Fioranello 31, 00134 Roma, Italy, and Visiting Professor at Geological Sciences Department, Rutgers University, Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8066, USA
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Andrea Borgia
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Maurice Aubert
Département de Sciences de la Terre, Université Blaise Pascal 5, rue Kessler, 63083 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Maurice Aubert
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Olivier Merle
Département de Sciences de la Terre, Université Blaise Pascal 5, rue Kessler, 63083 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Olivier Merle
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Benjamin van Wyk de Vries
Département de Sciences de la Terre, Université Blaise Pascal 5, rue Kessler, 63083 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Benjamin van Wyk de Vries
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Published:August 01, 2010
The definition of a volcano is discussed, and a new encompassing version is provided. The discussion focuses on the observations that volcanism is a self-similar process that ranges many orders of magnitude in space and time scales, and that all kinds of geologic processes act on volcanoes.
Former definitions of volcano, such as that from the Glossary of Geology (1997, p. 690)—“a vent in the surface of the Earth through which magma and associated gases and ash erupt” or “the form or structure, usually conical, that is produced by the ejected material” are clearly insufficient. All definitions that we...
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