Sites to Explore

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) > Submarine Volcanism

Hawaiian Center for Volcanology 

NPS>Hawaii Volcanoes

USGS > Hawaiian Volcano Observatory/ photo glossary/

VolcanoWorld >Review of Hawaiian Vocanism >Life Stages/ A Teacher's Guide to the Geology of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park/ Mauna Loa /

Dr. Vic Camp > How Volcanoes Work - good reference site for volcanoes

Images and Virtual Tours

VTHawaii.com > Big Island > Volcano numerous quicktime panoramas of island location

USGS>photo tour of Kilaeua Caldera

VolcanoWorld > Photographs of Hawaii (Big Island) and of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Earth Observatory > The Big Island of Hawaii / Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa / Kilauea Caldera / Lava Tubes on Mt. Kilauea / Mauna Loa Lava Flows - views from space

USGS Fact Sheets  and other online papers

Foulger, G. R.  and Anderson, Don L., 2006, The Emperor and Hawaiian Volcanic Chains: How well do they fit the plume hypothesis? www.mantleplumes.org

Jones, Nickola,2003, Volcanic bombshell, New Scientist, 177 (2385), p 32. on www.mantleplumes.org

Heliker, Christina Heliker and Brantley, Steven,, The Pu‘u ‘O‘o-Kupaianaha Eruption of Ki¯lauea Volcano, Hawai‘i, 1983 to 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 144-02 (Last Modified Aug. 2005)

Mastin, Lary, and others, Explosive Eruptions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i?, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 132-98, Online Version 1.0 (Last Modified Oct. 2004)

Pararas-Carayannis, George, 2000, INSTABILITY OF KILAUEA VOLCANO'S SOUTHERN FLANK - EVALUATION OF MASS EDIFICE FAILURES, FLANK COLLAPSES AND POTENTIAL TSUNAMI GENERATION

Norton, Ian, 2006, Tectonic origin for Hawaii. www.mantleplumes.org

Tilling, Robert I., Heliker, Christina , and Wright, Thomas L.,1987, Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes: Past, Present, and Future, USGS  (Last updated 1997)

 

Lava Reaches Sea Againat Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA (Last modified March 2000)

Text

Harris, Ann, and Tuttle, Esther, and Tuttle, Sherwood, 2004, Geology of National Parks: 6th Edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 882 pp.