Volcanoes of the Azores Revealing the Geological Secrets of the Central Northern Atlantic Islands /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kueppers, Ulrich (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Beier, Christoph (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Active Volcanoes of the World,
• Subjects: Geology.; Geophysics.; Geochemistry.; Natural disasters.; Sedimentology.; Structural geology.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Natural Hazards.; Structural Geology.

The Azores archipelago consists of nine islands that emerge from the Azores Plateau in the Central Northern Atlantic, situated within the triple junction of the American, Eurasian and African lithosphere plates. Subaerial volcanic activity has been well known since the Pliocene and continues today,...

Table of Contents:

• Geology
• Ages of the Azores volcanoes
• Tectonic Evolution
• Formation of rift zones and calderas of the Azorean islands
• Stratigraphy of the Azores volcanoes
• Azores Eruption styles
• The top three outcrops per island
• Pyroclastic density currents
• Paleontology
• "Santa Maria"
• Geochemistry and Petrology
• Petrology of Azorean lavas
• Mantle sources radiogenic isotopes and trace elements
• Stable non-traditional isotopes
• Distribution of volatiles
• Peridotites in the Azores
• Geophyics
• Constraining the plate boundaries in the Azores
• Historic earthquakes and present-day activity
• Shallow geophysics
• Deep geophysics
• Tomographie
• Biogeochemistry, Fluids, Seeps
• Freshwater in the Azores
• Degassing in the Azores (subaerial and submarine)
• Biodiversity around active submarine volcanoes
• Volcanoes and Society
• Hazard assessment
• Monitoring techniques.