Active Volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichón and Tacaná

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scolamacchia, Teresa (Editor), Macías, José Luis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Active Volcanoes of the World,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Geophysics.; Natural disasters.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This publication summarizes the studies carried out at two of the most active volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichón and Tacaná. El Chichón erupted explosively in 1982 killing more than 2000 people being the worst volcanic disaster in Mexico, and Tacaná produced two mild phreatic explosions in 19...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Geodynamic setting and pre-volcanic geology of active volcanism in Chiapas
• Petrology and geochemistry of El Chichón and Tacaná: two active, yet contrasting Mexican volcanoes
• El Chichón volcano: eruptive History
• Fluid geochemistry of El Chichón volcano-hydrothermal system
• Nature of the seismicity registered before and after the 1982 eruption
• Eruptive History of the Tacaná Volcanic Complex
• Fluid geochemistry of Tacaná volcano-hydrothermal system
• Risk management of El Chichón and Tacaná volcanoes: lessons learned from past volcanic crises
• Outlook.