2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 From: Agust Gudmundsson <rock.fractures@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dear All, A new book by Agust Gudmundsson has just been published: *Volcanotectonics. Understanding the Structure, Deformation and Dynamics of Volcanoes. Cambridge University Press (April 2020). *The link is: *www.cambridge.org/9781107024953 <http://www.cambridge.org/9781107024953>* Volcanotectonics is comparatively new scientific field that combines various methods and techniques of tectonics, structural geology, geophysics, and physics to collect data on volcanoes, as well as to analyse and interpret the physical processes that generate those data. The focus is on processes responsible for periods of volcanic unrest, caldera collapses, and eruptions. For basic science, one principal aim of volcanotectonics is to develop methods for reliable forecasting of eruptions. Accurate forecasting as regards the location, time, and magnitude of eruptions has long been a major goal in volcanology. Volcanotectonics provides a theoretical framework and understanding of the physical processes that take place inside volcanoes prior to eruptions, thereby offering methods and techniques that allow us to use data obtained during unrest periods to forecast eruptions. For applied science and human society, one principal aim of volcanotectonics is to develop methods for preventing very large eruptions. This second aim â?? namely methods that allow us to prevent very large eruptions - may come as a surprise to some, but is of fundamental importance for the future of human civilisation. Very large eruptions, whose eruptive volumes may be of the order of hundreds or thousands of cubic kilometres, provide existential threat to human civilisation. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the scientific field of volcanotectonics. The book is primarily aimed at, first, undergraduate and graduate students in geology, geophysics, and geochemistry and, second, civil authorities, scientists, engineers, and other professionals who deal with volcanoes and the associated hazards in their work. The book has be designed so that it can be used (1) for an independent study, (2) as a textbook for a course on volcanotectonics, and (3) as a supplementary text for general courses on volcanology, structural geology, geology, geophysics, geothermics, and natural hazards. In volcanotectonics the focus is on quantitative results. This is reflected in the 68 worked examples (solved probems) most of which include calculations. In addition there are 253 exercises (supplementary problems), many of which also require calculations. The examples and exercises are meant to provide a deeper understanding of the basic principles of volcanotectonics and their use for understanding the formation of volcanoes, the physical processes that maintain their activities, and providing reliable eruption forecasts. While volcanic activity cannot be understood or forecasted without basic knowledge of the relevant physics, the physics presented in the book is mostly elementary and explained in detail. Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Volcanotectonic structures Chapter 3. Volcanotectonic deformation Chapter 4. Volcanic earthquakes Chapter 5. Volcanotectonic processes Chapter 6. Formation and dynamics of magma chambers and reservoirs Chapter 7. Magma movement through the crust: dike paths Chapter 8. Dynamics of volcanic eruptions Chapter 9. Formation and evolution of volcanoes Chapter 10. Understanding unrest and forecasting eruptions 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 ------------------------------
