IMPATTO AMBIENTALE DEI VULCANI

The aim of the course is to provide to the sstudents the tools for understanding the eruptice dynamics and the formation of the volcanic edifices; furthermore it will be offered to the students the awareness of how the volcanic eruptions could have influenced the development and evolution of the human being and human society, and how big eruptions and volcanoes could have contributed to the development of human cultures.

Lectures and field excursions on volcanic terreins

Development of volcanology and relationship between volcanoes and human societies; the volcano system; origin and migration to the surface of magmas; the volcanic products: lavas, gasses; pyroclasts; volcanic edifices; volcanic eruptions; global distribution of volcanoes and relationship with the geodynamic domains; the effect of volcanic eruptions on the natural environments.

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H.U. Schmincke (2004) Volcanism Springer pp.324
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