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Table of Contents - Special Paper 402

Neogene-Quaternary Continental Margin Volcanism: A Perspective from México

edited by Claus Siebe, José Luis Macías, and Gerardo J. Aguirre-Díaz

Preface		v
Acknowledgments		vii
Petrology and Geochemistry
1.	México’s Quaternary volcanic rocks: Insights from the MEXPET petrological and geochemical database James F. Luhr, Paul Kimberly, Lee Siebert, J. Jorge Aranda-Gómez, Todd B. Housh, and Giuseppina Kysar Mattietti	1
2.	New Sr-Nd-Pb-O isotope data for Colima volcano and evidence for the nature of the local basement Gabriel Valdez-Moreno, Peter Schaaf, José Luis Macías, and Minoru Kusakabe	45
3.	The San Pedro–Cerro Grande volcanic complex (Nayarit, México): Inferences on volcanology and magma evolution Chiara M. Petrone, Lorella Francalanci, Luca Ferrari, Peter Schaaf, and Sandro Conticelli	65
4.	Experimental and model constraints on degassing of magma during ascent and eruption James E. Gardner, Alain Burgisser, Matthias Hort, and Malcolm Rutherford	99
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Eruption Dynamics
5.	Morphostratigraphic evolution of Popocatépetl volcano, México Ramón Espinasa-Pereña and Ana Lillian Martín-Del Pozzo	115
6.	The Valle de Bravo Volcanic Field: Geology and geomorphometric parameters of a Quaternary monogenetic field at the front of the Mexican Volcanic Belt Gerardo J. Aguirre-Díaz, María del Carmen Jaimes-Viera, and Jorge Nieto Obregón	139
7.	The Lower Toluca Pumice: A ca. 21,700 yr B.P. Plinian eruption of Nevado de Toluca Volcano, México Lucia Capra, Lia María Carreras, José Luis Arce, and José Luis Macías	155
8.	Geochemical correlation of Caribbean Sea tephra layers with ignimbrites in Central America Benjamin R. Jordan, Haraldur Sigurdsson, Steven N. Carey, Robert Rogers, and Jan Ehrenborg	175
Volcanic Hazard Studies
9.	Hazard zoning for ballistic impact during volcanic explosions at Volcán de Fuego de Colima (México) Miguel A. Alatorre-Ibargüengoitia, Hugo Delgado-Granados, and Isaac A. Farraz-Montes	209
10.	The Holocene syneruptive volcaniclastic debris flows in the Vesuvian area: Geological data as a guide for hazard assessment Roberto Sulpizio, Giovanni Zanchetta, Federica Demi, Mauro A. Di Vito, Maria T. Pareschi, and Roberto Santacroce	217
11.	Computational modeling of the 1991 block and ash flows at Colima Volcano, México Byron Rupp, Marcus Bursik, Laercio Namikawa, Amy Webb, Abani K. Patra, Ricardo Saucedo, José Luis Macías, and Chris Renschler	237
Field Trip Guide
12.	Volcanic hazards in the Mexico City metropolitan area from eruptions at Popocatépetl, Nevado de Toluca, and Jocotitlán stratovolcanoes and monogenetic scoria cones in the Sierra Chichinautzin Volcanic Field Claus Siebe and José Luis Macías	253