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The Volcano Information Center

This website is designed for educational purposes by Professor Emeritus Richard V. Fisher at UCSB, and is maintained by volunteers.

The purpose of the Volcano Information Center (VIC) is to provide links to websites that are resources for data not contained in VIC and to inform the user about general volcanology in an organized way, including features of volcanoes, volcanic eruptions and volcanic hazards. Technical items are identified with a message that reads TECHNICAL REPORT. We give thanks to all individuals and institutions whose programs have been linked and encompassed within the VIC pages.

This page is brought to you from
University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Geological Sciences
by Richard V. Fisher.

A coment on teaching and research in the University of California and other teaching/research universities; the necessity for combining the two activities.

Santa Barbara at sunset. Photograph by Bill Zeldis

In background is Puy de Dome, a young volcano in central France near Clermont-Ferrand. In foreground is the crater of a scoria cone. Central France is a region of many young but currently inactive volcanoes.

Volcanoes:Beneficial aspects

Volcano Topics

• List of Volcanic Hazards

• Volcaniclastic Names

• Volcanic Eruptions

• Volcanic Gases

• Hydrovolcanic Processes

• Volcano Forms

• Pyroclastic Flows

• Pyroclastic Fallout

• Lahars

• Debris-flow Avalanches

• Volcaniclastic Sedimentation and Facies

• Volcanic Lightning

• Volcanoes under glaciers (from the Science Institute, University of Iceland)

Searching for Volcanoes.

• Volcano Information from the U.S. Geological Survey

• Volcano Map of World Volcanoes from Michigan Tech

• World Volcanoes from VolcanoWorld

• World Volcanoes and Volcanism from the Smithsonian Institution

Some Reference Sources

• Geological Society of America Publications. Try the retrospective index -- by typing key words and concepts, the program will find everything that the Society has published since 1972.

• Fisher and Schmincke, Pyroclastic Rocks, 1984. Cited references A to F, G to M, N to S, T to Z

• Searchable index of all articles published in the Bulletin of Volcanology since 1924

Selected Geological Organizations. (See more complete list below: World Wide Earth Sciences Organizations).

• American Geophysical Union.

• Geological Society of America.

• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior.IAVCEI

Global Perspective: People and Institutions

• Geoscience Departments of the World

• World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO)

Search for volcanoes with YAHOO! or using ALTA VISTA

TWO NEW BOOKS....

Richard V. Fisher, Grant Heiken, and Jeffrey B. Hulen, 1997.

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Review by New York Times.

Second Book. Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist

by Richard V. Fisher, 1999. A personal account.

Review by Steve Sparks.