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This page is a bibliography of useful books and other references for the purposes of article-writing.

General reference

• WorldCat. (the world's largest library catalog, with over 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide; see WorldCat).
• GeoRef. (the largest earth sciences database for scientific articles; free access is available through most university libraries).
• USGS Publications Warehouse. (over 40,000 USGS publications as free downloads in PDF or DJVU format).
  • NOAA central library. Contains some NOAA expedition papers.

GVP listing

• Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: Bibliography by Region:
  

01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

General Volcanology and Volcanoes

• Lockwood, John P.; Hazlett, Richard W. (2010). Volcanoes: Global Perspectives. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-4051-6250-0. (Volcanoes: Global Perspectives).
• Decker, Robert and Barbara (2006). Volcanoes (4th ed.). W. H. Freeman. pp. 342 pp. ISBN 0-7167-8929-9.
• Lopes, Rosaly M.C. (2005). The Volcano Adventure Guide. Cambridge University Press. pp. 362 pp. ISBN 0-521-55453-5.
• Francis, Peter; Oppenheimer, Clive (2003). Volcanoes (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 536 pp. ISBN 0-19-925469-9.
• Sigurdsson, Haraldur (1999). Bruce Houghton; Stephen R. McNutt; Hazel Rymer; John Stix (eds.). Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. Academic Press. pp. 1456 pp. ISBN 012643140X. (Encyclopedia of Volcanoes).
• Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (2004). Volcanism. Springer-Verlag. pp. 334 pp. ISBN 3-540-43650-2.
• Tilling, Robert I. (1997). Volcanoes. General Interest Publications of the USGS. p. 45.
• Fisher, Richard V.; Grant Heiken; Jeffrey B. Hulen (1997). Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change. Princeton University Press. pp. 336 pp. ISBN 0-691-01213-X.
• Scarth, Alwyn (1994). Volcanoes: An Introduction. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 288 pp. ISBN 0-89096-636-2.
• Bullard, Fred M. (1984). Volcanoes of the Earth (2nd revised ed.) ed.). University of Texas Press. pp. 640 pp. ISBN 0-292-78706-5.
• Williams, Howel; McBirney, Alexander R. (1979). Volcanology. Freeman, Cooper and Company. pp. 397 pp. ISBN 0-87735-321-2.
• Macdonald, Gordon A (1972). Volcanoes. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. pp. xiv, 510. ISBN 0-13-942219-6.
• Cotton, C. A. (1969) [1952]. Volcanoes as Landscape Forms. Hafner Publishing. pp. 430 pp.

• U.S. Geological Survey: Volcano Hazards Program
• Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, see also Volcanology Links
• Volcano World

Plate tectonics

• Stern, Robert J. (2002). "Subduction Zones" (PDF). Reviews of Geophysics. 40: 1012. Bibcode:2002RvGeo..40.1012S. doi:10.1029/2001RG000108.
• Stern, R.J.; Fouch, M.J.; Klemperer, S. (2003). "An Overview of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction Factory". In Eiler, J.; Hirschmann, M. (eds.). Inside the Subduction Factory (PDF). Geophysical Monograph. Vol. 138. American Geophysical Union. pp. 175–222. ISBN 0875909973.

History of Volcanology and Volcanic Eruptions

• Sigurdsson, Haraldur (1999). Melting the Earth: The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions. Oxford University Press. pp. 272 pp. ISBN 0-19-510665-2.
• Scarth, Alwyn (1999). Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano. Yale University Press. pp. 312 pp. ISBN 0-300-09123-0.
• Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle; Sanders, Donald Theodore (2004). Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions. Princeton University Press. pp. 320 pp. ISBN 0-691-05081-3.

Volcanologists

• Duffield, Wendell A. (2003). Chasing Lava: A Geologist's Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Mountain Press Publishing Company. pp. 192 pp. ISBN 0-87842-462-8.
• Thompson, Dick (2000). Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science. St. Martin's Press. pp. 336 pp. ISBN 0-312-20881-2.
• Fisher, Richard V. (1999). Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist. Princeton University Press. pp. 192 pp. ISBN 0-691-00226-6.

Igneous Petrology

• Young, Davis A. (2003). Mind over Magma: The Story of Igneous Petrology. Princeton University Press. pp. 708 pp. ISBN 0-691-10279-1.
• Le Maitre, R. W., ed. (2002). Igneous Rocks: A Classification and Glossary of Terms (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 252 pp. ISBN 0-521-66215-X.
• Middlemost, Eric A. K. (1997). Magmas, Rocks and Planetary Development: A Survey of Magma/Igneous Rock Systems. Longman. pp. 317 pp. ISBN 0-582-23089-6.
• Hall, Anthony (1996). Igneous Petrology (2nd ed.). Longman. pp. 565 pp. ISBN 0-582-23080-2.
• McBirney, Alexander R. (1993). Igneous Petrology (2nd ed.). Jones and Bartlett Publishers. pp. 520 pp. ISBN 0-86720-175-4.
• Middlemost, Eric A. K. (1985). Magmas and Magmatic Rocks: An Introduction to Igneous Petrology. Longman. pp. 276 pp. ISBN 0-582-30080-0.
• Barker, Daniel S. (1983). Igneous Rocks. Prentice-Hall. pp. 429 pp. ISBN 0-13-450692-8.

Volcanoes of the Solar System

• Frankel, Charles (2005). Worlds on Fire: Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io. Cambridge University Press. pp. 366 pp. ISBN 0-521-80393-4.
• Lopes, Rosaly M.C.; Gregg, Tracy K.P. (2004). Volcanic Worlds: Exploring The Solar System's Volcanoes. Springer / Praxis. pp. 236 pp. ISBN 3-540-00431-9.
• Hodge, Paul (2001). Higher than Everest: An Adventurer's Guide to the Solar System. Cambridge University Press. pp. 256 pp. ISBN 0-521-65133-6.
• Frankel, Charles (1996). Volcanoes of the Solar System. Cambridge University Press. pp. 246 pp. ISBN 0-521-47770-0.
• Cattermole, Peter (1989). Planetary Volcanism: A study of volcanic activity in the solar system. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 456 pp. ISBN 0-470-21602-6.

• Volcano World: Volcanoes of Other Worlds

Worldwide

• Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program
• Volcano World: Volcanoes by Region
• Stromboli online - Volcanoes of the World
• Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page

Continental United States and Canada

• Wood, Charles A.; Jürgen Kienle, eds. (1990). Volcanoes of North America. Cambridge University Press. pp. 354 pp. ISBN 0-521-43811-X.
• Harris, Stephen L. (2005). Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes (3rd ed.). Mountain Press Publishing Company. pp. 454 pp. ISBN 0-87842-511-X.
• Mueller, Marge And Ted (1995). A Guide To Washington's South Cascades' Volcanic Landscapes. Mountaineers Books. pp. 224 pp. ISBN 0-89886-445-3.
• Richter, Donald H.; Danny S. Rosenkrans; Margaret J. Steigerwald (1995). Guide to the Volcanoes of the Western Wrangell Mountains, Alaska. USGS Bulletin 2072. pp. 32 pp.
• Winkler, Gary R. (2000). A Geologic Guide to Wrangell—Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska: A Tectonic Collage of Northbound Terranes. USGS Professional Paper 1616. pp. 166 pp. ISBN 0-607-92676-7.
• Miller, T. P.; et al. (1998). Catalog of the Historically Active Volcanoes of Alaska. USGS Open File Report 98-582. pp. 104 pp.

• Alaska Volcano Observatory: Volcano Information
• Geological Survey of Canada: Volcanoes of Canada
• USGS: Cascades Volcano Observatory
• USGS: Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
• USGS: Long Valley Observatory
• Volcanoes of New Mexico

Yellowstone

• East and West Yellowstone-Snake River Plain (YSRP) silicic volcanic system, Yellowstone hotspot and Newberry Volcano.
• Xue, Mei; Allen, Richard M. (2006). "Origin of the Newberry Hotspot Track: Evidence from shear-wave splitting" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 244: 315–322. Bibcode:2006E&PSL.244..315X. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.066.
• Christiansen, Robert L.; Foulger, G. R.; Evans, John R (2002). "Upper-mantle origin of the Yellowstone hotspot" (PDF). GSA Bull. 114 (10): 1245–1256. Bibcode:2002GSAB..114.1245C. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1245:UMOOTY>2.0.CO;2.
• Shervais, John W.; Hanan, Barry B. (24 Sep 2008). "Lithospheric topography, tilted plumes, and the track of the Snake River–Yellowstone hot spot" (PDF). Tectonics. 27: TC5004. Bibcode:2008Tecto..27.5004S. doi:10.1029/2007TC002181.
• Zandt, G.; Humphreys, E. (April 2008). "Toroidal mantle flow through the western U.S. slab window" (PDF). Geology. 36 (4): 295–298. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..295Z. doi:10.1130/G24611A.1.
• National Science Foundation-funded studies:
  • Smith, Robert B.; Jordan, Michael; Steinberger, Bernhard; Puskas, Christine M.; Farrell, Jamie; Waite, Gregory P.; Husen, Stephan; Chang, Wu-Lung; O'Connell, Richard (20 November 2009). "Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics and mantle flow" (PDF). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 188 (1–3): 26–56. Bibcode:2009JVGR..188...26S. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.08.020.
  • DeNosaquo, Katrina R.; Smith, Robert B.; Lowry, Anthony R. (20 November 2009). "Density and lithospheric strength models of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain volcanic system from gravity and heat flow data" (PDF). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 188 (1–3): 108–127. Bibcode:2009JVGR..188..108D. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.08.006.
  • Farrell, Jamie; Husen, Stephan; Smith, Robert B. (20 November 2009). "Earthquake swarm and b-value characterization of the Yellowstone volcano-tectonic system" (PDF). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 188 (1–3): 260–276. Bibcode:2009JVGR..188..260F. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.08.008.
  • White, Bonnie J. Pickering; Smith, Robert B.; Farrell, Jamie; Husen, Stephan; Wong, Ivan (20 November 2009). "Seismicity and earthquake hazard analysis of the Teton-Yellowstone region, Wyoming" (PDF). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 188 (1–3): 277–296. Bibcode:2009JVGR..188..277W. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.08.015.

Hawaii

• Macdonald, Gordon A.; Agatin T. Abbott; Frank L. Peterson (1983). Volcanoes in the Sea: The Geology of Hawaii (2nd ed.). University of Hawaii Press. pp. 528 pp. ISBN 0-8248-0832-0.
• Wright, Thomas L.; Taeko Jane Takahashi; J.D. Griggs (1992). Hawai‘i Volcano Watch: A Pictorial History, 1779-1991. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 172 pp. ISBN 0-8248-1439-8.
• Carr, M. H.; Greeley, R. (1980). Volcanic Features of Hawaii: A Basis for Comparison With Mars. NASA. pp. 217 pp. ISBN 9997398734.

• USGS: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
• Hawaii Center for Volcanology

Mexico and Central America

• Siebert, Lee; Christina Calvin; Paul Kimberly; James F. Luhr; Giuseppina Kysar (2003). Volcanoes of México. Smithsonian Institution, GVP-6. pp. CD–ROM. ISBN 0-9667802-3-X.
• Siebert, Lee; Paul Kimberly; Christina Calvin; James F. Luhr; Giuseppina Kysar Mattietti (2006). Volcanoes of Central America. Smithsonian Institution, GVP-7. pp. CD–ROM. ISBN 0-9667802-4-8.
• Yarza de la Torre, Esperanza (1971). Volcanes de México. Aguilar. pp. 237 pp. (in Spanish)
• Secor, R. J. (2001). Mexico's Volcanoes: A Climbing Guide (3rd ed.). Mountaineers Books. pp. 160 pp. ISBN 0-89886-798-3.
• Prahl Redondo, Carlos E. (1992). Guía de los Volcanes de Guatemala. Club Andino Guatemalteco. pp. 137 pp. (in Spanish)
• Williams, Howel; McBirney, Alexander R. (1969). Volcanic History of Honduras. University of California Press. pp. 101 pp.
• McBirney, Alexander R.; Williams, Howel (1965). Volcanic History of Nicaragua. University of California Press. pp. 73 pp.
• Williams, Howel (1960). Volcanic History of the Guatemalan Highlands. University of California Press. pp. 86 pp.

Caribbean

• Mulford, John W. (1969). Volcano Watcher's Guide to the Caribbean. Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bulletin 54. pp. 32 pp.
• Roobol, M. John; Smith, Alan L. (2004). Volcanology of Saba and St. Eustatius, Northern Lesser Antilles. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. pp. 340 pp. ISBN 90-6984-384-6. (free book download)
• Smith, Alan L.; Roobol, M. John (1990). Mt. Pelée, Martinique: A Study of an Active Island Arc Volcano. Geological Society of America Memoir 175. pp. 113 pp. ISBN 0-8137-1175-4.
• Scarth, Alwyn (2002). La Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mount Pelée, the Worst Volcanic Eruption of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 256 pp. ISBN 0-19-521839-6.
• Druitt, T. H.; Kokelaar, B. P., eds. (2002). The Eruption of Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, from 1995 to 1999. Geological Society of London Memoir 21. pp. 660 pp. ISBN 1-86239-098-3.

• University of the West Indies - Seismic Research Unit: Volcanoes

South America

• González-Ferrán, Oscar (1995). Volcanes de Chile. Santiago, Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar. ISBN 956-202-054-1. (in Spanish; also includes volcanoes of Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru)
• De Silva, Shanaka L.; Peter Francis (1991). Volcanoes of the Central Andes. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3540537066.
• Biggar, John (2005). The Andes: A Guide for Climbers (3rd ed.). Andes Publishing (Scotland). ISBN 0-9536087-2-7.
• Brain, Yossi (1999). Bolivia: A Climbing Guide. Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-495-X.
• Brain, Yossi (2000). Ecuador: A Climbing Guide. Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-729-0.
• Hall, Minard L. (1977). El Volcanismo en el Ecuador (in Spanish). Sección Nacional del Ecuador.
• McBirney, Alexander R.; Williams, Howel (1969). Geology and Petrology of the Galápagos Islands. Geological Society of America Memoir 118. ISBN 0-8137-1118-5.
• Stern, Charles R. (December 2004). "Active Andean volcanism: its geologic and tectonic setting". Revista Geológica de Chile. 31 (2): 161–206. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082004000200001. Retrieved 2010-03-15.

• Instituto Geofísico Ecuador
• Galapagos Geology on the Web

Europe

• Scarth, Alwyn; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001). Volcanoes of Europe. Oxford University Press. pp. 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-521754-3.
• Chester, D. K.; Duncan, A. M.; Guest, J. E.; Kilburn, C. R. J. (1985). Mount Etna: The Anatomy of a Volcano. Stanford University Press. pp. 412 pp. ISBN 0-8047-1308-1.
• Kilburn, Chris; McGuire, Bill (2001). Italian Volcanoes (Classic Geology in Europe 1). Terra Publishing. pp. 174 pp. ISBN 1-903544-04-1.
• Cattermole, Peter (2001). Auvergne (Classic Geology in Europe 2). Terra Publishing. pp. 176 pp. ISBN 1-903544-05-X.
• Thordarson, Thor; Hoskuldsson, Armann (2002). Iceland (Classic Geology in Europe 3). Terra Publishing. pp. 208 pp. ISBN 1-903544-06-8.
• Carracedo, Juan Carlos; Day, Simon (2002). Canary Islands (Classic Geology in Europe 4). Terra Publishing. pp. 208 pp. ISBN 1-903544-07-6.
• Friedrich, Walter L. (1999). Fire in the Sea, the Santorini Volcano: Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis. Translated by Alexander R. McBirney. Cambridge University Press. pp. 272 pp. ISBN 0-521-65290-1.
• Druitt, T. H.; et al. (1999). Santorini Volcano. Geological Society of London Memoir 19. pp. 173 pp. ISBN 1-86239-098-3.
• Scrope, George Poulett (1858). The Geology and extinct Volcanos of Central France. J. Murray, London. pp. 258 pp. ISBN 0405104596. (reprinted in 1978 by Arno Press)
• Upton, Brian (2004). Volcanoes and the Making of Scotland. Dunedin Academic Press. pp. 256 pp. ISBN 1-903765-40-4.

• Italy's Volcanoes: The Cradle of Volcanology
• Explore Italian Volcanoes
• Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris: Volcanological and seismological Observatories
• BBC volcano live supplement casual guide to UK volcanism

Russia

• Sviatlovskii, A. E. (Aleksandr Evgenevich) (1959). Aтлас Вулканов СССР / Atlas of Volcanoes of the USSR (in Russian and English). Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR.
• Fedotov, S. A.; Yu. P. Masurenkov, eds. (1991). Действующие Вулканы Камчатки / Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka (in Russian and English). Moskva: Izd-vo Nauka. ISBN 5020033774.
• Sviatlovskii, A. E.; S. A. Fedotov; et al. (1995). Камчатка: Страна Вулканов / Kamchatka: The Land of Volcanoes (in Russian and English). Moskva. ISBN 5-87750-106-2.
• Gorshkov, Georgii S. (1970). Volcanism and the Upper Mantle: Investigations in the Kurile Island Arc. Translated by Charles P. Thornton. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-30407-4. (in English; original Russian title: Вулканизм Курильской Островной Дуги / Volcanism of the Kurile Island Arc)

• Kamchatkan Experimental & Methodical Seismological Department, Geophysical Service, Russian Academy of Science

Asia

• Whitford-Stark, J. L. (1987). A Survey of Cenozoic Volcanism on Mainland Asia. Geological Society of America Special Paper 213. pp. 82 pp. ISBN 0-8137-2213-6.
• Kimberly, Paul; Lee Siebert; James F. Luhr; Tom Simkin (1998). Volcanoes of Indonesia. Smithsonian Institution, GVP-1. pp. CD–ROM. ISBN 0-9667802-0-5.

• University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute: Volcano Research Center
• Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
• Volcanological Survey of Indonesia

Africa

• Tazieff, Haroun (1979). Nyiragongo: The Forbidden Volcano. Barron's Educational Series. pp. 288 pp. ISBN 0-8120-5296-X.
• Ward, Clive; Gordon Boy; Iain Allan (1989). Snowcaps on the Equator: The Fabled Mountains of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire. Bodley Head]. pp. 192 pp. ISBN 0-370-31126-4.

• The Oldoinyo Lengai Website and Ol Doinyo Lengai: The Mountain of God
• Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World - Part 3 Africa

Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, SW Pacific Ocean

• Sutherland, F. Lin (1995). The Volcanic Earth. UNSW Press. pp. 248 pp. ISBN 0-86840-071-8. (NOTE: This book should be subtitled "Volcanoes of Australia", since that is its primary subject.)
• Johnson, R. W., ed. (1989). Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge University Press. pp. 432 pp. ISBN 0-521-38083-9.
• Smith, Ian E.M., ed. (1986). Late Cenozoic Volcanism In New Zealand. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 23. pp. 371 pp. ISBN 0-908654-08-1.
• Williams, Karen (1984). Volcanoes of the South Wind: A Field Guide to the Volcanoes and Landscape of Tongariro National Park. Tongariro Natural History Society. pp. 128 pp.
• Johnson, R. W., ed. (1976). Volcanism in Australasia. Elsevier. pp. 421 pp. ISBN 0-444-41462-2.

• Volcanoes in New Zealand: GNS Science Limited

Antarctica

• LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W., eds. (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
• Kyle, Philip R., ed. (1994). Volcanological and Environmental Studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union. ISBN 0-87590-875-6.