Volcano monitoring
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Published:January 01, 2009
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James G. Smith, Jonathan Dehn, Richard P. Hoblitt, Richard G. LaHusen, Jacob B. Lowenstern, Seth C. Moran, Lindsay McClelland, Kenneth A. McGee, Manuel Nathenson, Paul G. Okubo, John S. Pallister, Michael P. Poland, John A. Power, David J. Schneider, Thomas W. Sisson, 2009. "Volcano monitoring", Geological Monitoring, Rob Young, Lisa Norby
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Volcanoes are not randomly distributed over the Earth's surface. Most are concentrated on the edges of continents, along island chains, or beneath the sea where they form long mountain ranges. More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific Ocean (see Fig. 1). The concept of plate tectonics explains the locations of volcanoes and their relationship to other large-scale geologic features. The Earth's surface is made up of a patchwork of about a dozen large plates and a number of smaller ones that move relative to one another at <1 cm to ~10...
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Geological Monitoring

Geologic Monitoring is a practical, nontechnical guide for land managers, educators, and the public that synthesizes representative methods for monitoring short-term and long-term change in geologic features and landscapes. A prestigious group of subject-matter experts has carefully selected methods for monitoring sand dunes, caves and karst, rivers, geothermal features, glaciers, nearshore marine features, beaches and marshes, paleontological resources, permafrost, seismic activity, slope movements, and volcanic features and processes. Each chapter has an overview of the resource; summarizes features that could be monitored; describes methods for monitoring each feature ranging from low-cost, low-technology methods (that could be used for school groups) to higher cost, detailed monitoring methods requiring a high level of expertise; and presents one or more targeted case studies.
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- acoustical emissions
- aerial photography
- ash clouds
- Cascade Range
- debris flows
- deformation
- earthquakes
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- gases
- geodesy
- geologic hazards
- geophysical methods
- Global Positioning System
- igneous rocks
- infrared spectroscopy
- InSAR
- lahars
- laser methods
- leveling
- lidar methods
- mass movements
- monitoring
- Mount Rainier
- Pierce County Washington
- plate tectonics
- plumes
- precursors
- pyroclastics
- radar methods
- remote sensing
- SAR
- satellite methods
- seismic methods
- seismic networks
- seismicity
- slope stability
- spectroscopy
- tilt
- triangulation
- United States
- volcanic earthquakes
- volcanic risk
- volcanic rocks
- volcanoes
- Washington
- electronic distance monitoring