VULCANOLOGIA
Achieve a sufficient standard in the description of rock types and volcanic stratigraphy, knowledge of how to relate geometry and composition of volcanic deposits to the eruptive mechanism, transport and deposition. To know the general principles for the assessment of hazard and volcanic risk.
History of volcanology, geology of the volcanic rocks,types of eruptions, volcanic risk.
History of Volcanology; Volcanic landforms: polygenic, monogenic, linear, central, calderas; Types of activities: exhalative, effusive, explosive, freatic and phreatomagmatic; Types of eruptions: Hawaiian, Strombolian, Plinian and ultraplinian; Types of pyroclasts and particle size classification and morfology; Description of volcanic rock types, lavas, pyroclastics, epiclastites; Description and interpretation of the volcanic facies: fallout, surge, flow. Elements of volcanic hazard and risk, eruptions forecast. Laboratory of rocks recognition, field excursion in Lanzarote.
-F.Stoppa (2014) Il vulcanesimo. La preistoria: l’origine del mito. Memorie descrittive Carta Geologica d'Italia, XCV, 79-83.
- Sigurdsson, Houghton, Rymer, Stix, McNutt (2000) Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. Academic Press,
ISBN-13: 978-0126431407.
Texts chosen by the student.
Frontal lessons, field excursion (Lanzarote)
interview, report