Selected Reports on Historical Eruptions Publications
Summarizing Historical Eruptions Simkin, Tom, and Siebert, Lee,
1994, Volcanoes of the World -- A regional directory, gazetteer,
and chronology of Volcanism during the last 10,000 years:
Tuscon, Geoscience Press, Inc., 349 p. Well-documented examples
of recent volcanic activity are extremely helpful in
interpreting current volcano unrest and in improving our
understanding of pre-historic eruptions. Since 1971, scientists
of the Smithsonian Institution have aggressively sought
descriptions of ongoing volcanism around the world. Such
descriptions of volcanic activity have become part of an
enormous volcano data base maintained by the Smithsonian's
Global Volcanism Project. This book presents the world's most
complete volcano data base in a single condensed volume and
includes descriptions of the data elements included in the data
tables, guidelines followed in building the data base,
interesting examples of volcanism from the historic record, and
a brief exp