1st Edition

Volcaniclastic Rocks, from Magmas to Sediments

Edited By H Leyrit, C Montenat Copyright 2000
    310 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This volume is an excellently written and beautifully illustrated textbook compiled by a multidisciplinary group of experts examining the production, transport and deposition of volcaniclasts (tephra and epiclasts) as well as their economic geology.

    1. Volcanoes: From Magmas to Tephra and Epivolcanoclastics 2. Eruptive Styles and Pyroclastic Deposits 3. A Common Magma Source for Upper Cenozoic Lavas and Closely Associated Ignimbrites From South-Central Andes 4. The Role of Pyroclastic Eruptions in Constructing a Volcanic Island: Linosa, Sicilian Channel, Italy 5. Peperites From the Limagne Trench (Auvergne, French Massif Central): A Distinctive Facies of Phreatomagmatic Pyroclastics. 6. History of a Semantic Drift 7. Flank

    Biography

    H Leyrit, C Montenat