PubVolc 02/09

The digest of articles submitted to PubVolc in February 2009 is online @ http://www.pubvolc.net/current.php5

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Crystals Improve Understanding Of Volcanic Eruption Triggers

The team, from Durham University and the University of Leeds, studied crystal formation from a volcano, in Santorini, in Greece, to calculate the timescale between the trigger of volcanic activity and the volcano’s eruption.
Lead author Dr Victoria Martin, of Durham University, showed that the crystal rims reacted with molten rock, or magma, as it moved [...]

Current PubVolc Digest (Jul 2008) is Online

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The June Issue of PubVolc is Live!!

Visit http://www.pubvolc.net/current.php5 to read the June Issue!
PubVolc is a web-based database of recent volcanology articles. Anyone can add details of their latest article to the database; once the details have been checked by a moderator, they can be viewed by anyone visiting the PubVolc website. Once a month, a digest of all the articles added that [...]

World’s Largest Vinegar & Baking Soda Volcano

Super cool project from just across the state… Now, I want to top it…

Eruption Column Demonstration

We were recently shown a paper by Karen S. Harpp, Alison M. Koleszar, and L. Dennis Geist that presented instructions for the safe demonstration of an explosive volcanic eruption.   In less than a second, the explosion carries up to 20 gallons of water into an eruption column more than 10 meters high. Boiling liquid nitrogen [...]