Volcán de Colima: Portrait of a Persistently Hazardous Volcano (Active Volcanoes of the World)

This book represents a comprehensive coverage of the current state of knowledge of Volcán de Colima: its history, its eruptive mechanism, the generation and interpretation of monitoring data, and the risk presented to the local population. The volume pulls together the results of the most important studies of recent years from many areas of volcanology: the geology of its eruptive products; geophysical and geochemical studies of the signals measured that relate to the generation and movement of magma; experimental analysis of its internal processes and the social complexities relating to the risk imposed by future eruptions. Volcán de Colima is an important volcano: it has frequent large Plinian or sub-Plinian eruptions; its activity frequently switches between various regimes, which provides the opportunity to study these transitions from their cause to their impact; and it is a volcano which poses a significant threat to a large population. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Holocene Eruption History and Magmatic Evolution of the Colima Volcanic Complex (Julia M. Crummy, Ivan P. Savov, Carlos Navarro-Ochoa, Dan J. Morgan)....Pages 1-25 Structure of the Colima Volcanic Complex: Origin and Behaviour of Active Fault Systems in the Edifice (Gianluca Norini, Federico Agliardi, Giovanni Crosta, Gianluca Groppelli, Maria Clara Zuluaga)....Pages 27-54 Late Pleistocene-Holocene Debris Avalanche Deposits from Volcán de Colima, Mexico (A. Cortés, J.-C. Komorowski, J. L. Macías, L. Capra, P. W. Layer)....Pages 55-79 Modelling Tephra Thickness and Particle Size Distribution of the 1913 Eruption of Volcán de Colima, Mexico (C. B. Connor, L. J. Connor, C. Bonadonna, J. Luhr, I. Savov, C. Navarro-Ochoa)....Pages 81-110 Pyroclastic Density Currents at Volcán de Colima (R. Saucedo, J. L. Macías, J. C. Gavilanes-Ruiz, M. I. Bursik, V. Vargas-Gutiérrez)....Pages 111-139 Origin, Behaviour and Hazard of Rain-Triggered Lahars at Volcán de Colima (L. Capra, J. C. Gavilánes-Ruíz, N. Varley, L. Borselli)....Pages 141-157 Monitoring the Recent Activity: Understanding a Complex System (N. R. Varley)....Pages 159-193 Seismic Activity Associated with Volcán de Colima (Raúl Arámbula-Mendoza, Gabriel Reyes-Dávila, Tonatiuh Domínguez-Reyes, Dulce Vargas-Bracamontes, Miguel González-Amezcua, Alejandro Martínez-Fierros et al.)....Pages 195-218 Petrological Monitoring of Volcán de Colima Magmatic System: The 1998 to 2011 Activity (Olivier Reubi, Jonathan Blundy, Joe Pickles)....Pages 219-240 The Fragility of Volcán de Colima—A Material Constraint (Yan Lavallée, Michael J. Heap, Jackie E. Kendrick, Ulrich Kueppers, Donald B. Dingwell)....Pages 241-266 Volcanic Hazard Estimations for Volcán de Colima (Servando De la Cruz-Reyna, Ana Teresa Mendoza-Rosas, Lorenzo Borselli, Damiano Sarocchi)....Pages 267-289 Civil Protection and Volcanic Risk Management in Colima (Hugo Ignacio Rodríguez García)....Pages 291-313 This book represents a comprehensive coverage of the current state of knowledge of Volcan de Colima: its history, its eruptive mechanism, the generation and interpretation of monitoring data, and the risk presented to the local population.