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Instructors: |
Hubert Staudigel (with Lisa Tauxe UCSD and Peter Schiffmann and Robert Zierenberg UCD) |
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Texts: |
"Volcanoes" by Francis and Oppenheimer (2003) (F) and "Kilauea Volcano" by
Richard Hazlett (H) |
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Grading: |
60% final and 40% exercises |
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Date
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Lecture topic (generally 8:30 ‑ 10:00) and lecturer (or other
morning activity)
In parentheses is the Chapter reading in Francis and Oppenheimer
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| 9/7 |
Introduction to Hawaiian volcanism and Kilauea (1‑2)
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| 9/8 |
Magma genesis, chemistry and physics of volcanoes (4) |
| 9/9 |
Classification of eruptions and pyroclastic eruptions (3,5,13)
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| 9/10 |
Hydrovolcanic eruptions (7-11) |
| 9/11 |
Active deformation of Kilauea and Mauna Loa (Mike
Poland/Paul Okubo from HVO) (17,18) |
| 9/12 |
Lava flows and littoral cones (6,14) |
| 9/13 |
Day Off (visit Volcano Village Farmers' Market or leave for Nanawale
and Hilo at 9:00) |
| 9/14 |
Excursion to East Rift Zone and Napau Crater (leaving at 8:30, no lecture) |
| 9/15 |
Mauna Loa |
| 9/16 |
Volcanic gases
and environmental geochemistry |
| 9/17 |
Other hazards: earthquakes,
landslides and tsunamis in Hawaii (12) |
| 9/18 |
Office morning to finish projects and study for final |
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Tentative afternoon excursion schedule
(generally 10:30 - 5:00+)
In parentheses is the Chapter reading in Hazlett |
| 9/7 |
Kilauea Caldera (pp. 32-33, 59-83)
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| 9/8 |
Exercise: Measuring stratigraphic section of Keanakako'i Ash
(pp. 83-88) |
| 9/9 |
Thurston Lava Tube and Kilauea-Iki (pp. 89-93) |
| 9/10 |
Exercise: Measuring vitric sections of Keanakakoi in Sand
Wash |
| 9/11 |
Exercise: Deformation of Kilauea's south flank (fracture
orientation, density, width in flows) |
| 9/12 |
First visit to active lava flows and study cross section of flows on
the "Chain of Crater Road" |
| 9/13 |
Day Off |
| 9/14 |
Excursion to East Rift Zone and Napau Crater (pp. 95-114) |
| 9/15 |
Exercise: Mapping Mauna Loa lava flows off air
photos |
| 9/16 |
Ka'u Desert and South Point: Footprints area, Pu'u Mahana tuff
cone, Green Sand Beach (pp. 51-58) |
| 9/17 |
Hilina Pali faults and revisiting active lava flows |
| 9/18 |
Final examination (60% with open notes but un-open book, including
lectures, field excursions and exercises) |
