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Brief Video Communications: Keweenaw Geoheritage
11 Apr 2016 | Contributor(s): William I Rose, Erika Vye
Erika Vye and I have fashioned outreach videos aimed at a broad public to educate about local geology in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, where metal mining began thousands of years ago by First Nation immigrants who walked to America from Asia and found copper veins projecting from uncovered...
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Keweenaw Geoheritage
26 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
The site interprets the exposed section of the Mesoproterozoic mid-continent rift, the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, Michigan. It includes some of Earth's most voluminous lava flows, a large thrust fault, a vast sequence of fluvial red beds and unique native copper deposits. The geology...
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Fuego Volcano--resources for volcano scientists
17 Oct 2012 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This new web compilation contains a published scientific bibliography with source links about Fuego Volcano. Fuego is a bellweather volcano with explosive activity of a vulcanian or sub plinian type. It is basaltic in composition, and has built a 3770 m high composite volcano around a central...
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Pacaya Volcano Resource Information for volcano scientists
17 Oct 2012 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This is an attempt at providing fundamental information for scientists considering field experiments and observations at an active volcano with strombolian activity. It has a list of published work on Pacaya and a basic visual intro of the site. The user might be able to get an impression about...
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Santiaguito Resources
15 Oct 2012 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This is a web site devoted toward providing info about published volcanologic work at Santiaguito. It is aimed at encouraging people to work there. Mainly it tries to provide information. Please send ideas for improvement to Bill Rose.http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/VSantiaguito
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Hazards of volcanic ash
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Claire Horwell
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Models of tephra dispersion
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Costanza Bonadonna
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The volcanic cloud of the 1992 eruption of Crater Peak, Alaska
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Satellite remote sensing of volcanic SO2 emissions
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Why measure volcanic emissions from space?
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Distal sedimentation and the connection to cloud microphysics
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Adam Durant
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Thunderstorms and Volcanic clouds- analogies
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Weather Radar systems for mitigation of volcanic cloud hazards to aircraft
29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Observing volcanic clouds
29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: William I. Rose
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Keweenaw Boulder Garden
27 Apr 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/SilverI/Boulder_Garden/ Boulder Gardens are selected and arranged groups of boulders, designed for an educational purpose. At Michigan Tech we selected 40 diverse and representative glacial lag boulders which represent the lithology of all of the regional surficial...
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Geology of the Keweenaw Rift, Upper Michigan
27 Apr 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This is a one hour 15 min lecture which is aimed at the Geology of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, where the Portage Lake Lava Series and the Copper Harbor Conglomerate are exposed and Earth's earliest known continental flood basalts can be observed in the field. The lecture is meant to...
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Mount St Helens 1980-6 Activity summary
27 Apr 2011 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This series of two lectures summarizes the sequence of events asssociated with the 1980-86 eruptions of Mount St Helens, Washington State, USA. It is intended as a refresher for students and researchers.Lipman, Peter W., and Mullineaux, Donal R. (eds.), 1981, The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St....
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1992 Spurr Eruption Case Discussion
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This lecture summarizes distal ash cloud observations via satellite and radar, along with information about meteorology and fallout, for the 1992 Crater Peak/Spurr eruptions. These small subplinian events produced significant fine and very fine ash fallouts that were sampled and measured. Even...
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More Volcanic Ash Remote Sensing
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Environmental aspects of volcanic clouds as investigated by remote sensing tools. Ice in volcanic clouds. Separation of ash and SO2 in volcanic clouds.Rose, W. I., D. J. Delene, D. J. Schneider, G. J. S. Bluth, A. J. Krueger, I. Sprod, C. McKee, H. L. Davies and G. G. J. Ernst, 1995, Ice in the...
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Thunderstorms and Volcanic Clouds
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
There are many similarities between eruption clouds and common convective clouds which lead to thunderstorms. This lecture calls attention to the comparison.
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Weather Radar Systems (Lacasse et al)
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This lecture describes the vital observations that can be made by ground-based weather radar systems. It is based on a paper written by Lacasse et al and which is attached in the supporting documents of this presentation.Lacasse, C, S Karlsdóttir, G Larsen, H Soosalu, W I Rose and G G J...
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An introduction to Santiaguito/Santa Maria Guatemala
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
An introductory lecture about a pair of related volcanoes in Guatemala, Santa Maria and Santiaguito. Meant to help orient researchers on this great laboratory volcano. The first part of the lecture is followed by Part 2, which in in the supporting documents.Escobar Wolf, R, RO Matias Gomez and WI...
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Mapping a 49 year old eruption of a basaltic cone: Pacaya Guatemala
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This presentation summarizes the 50 year eruption and the 3 dimensional map produced. The map, prepared as part of an MS thesis by Ruben Otoniel Matias Gomez, is under review as a Map and Chart Series publication by the GSA. The lecture summarizes the situation at Pacaya, and uses Matias' map as...
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More Volcano Meteorology
31 Mar 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Adiabatic processes, humidity in the atmosphere. Hydrometeors, stable and unstable air. Coriolis. Winds on a spherical surface.
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Reducing the threat to aviation from airborne volcanic ash
10 Feb 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose