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Table of Contents - Special Paper 470

What Is a Volcano?

Edited by Edgardo Cañón-Tapia and Alexandru Szakács


Introduction
Edgardo Cañón-Tapia and Alexandru Szakács
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1. What is a volcano?
Andrea Borgia, Maurice Aubert, Olivier Merle, and Benjamin van Wyk de Vries
1
2. Beyond Earth: How extra-terrestrial volcanism has changed our definition of a volcano
Rosaly M.C. Lopes, Karl L. Mitchell, David Williams, and Giuseppe Mitri
11
3. Sedimentary volcanoes: Overview and implications for the definition of a volcano on Earth
A.J. (Tom) van Loon
31
4. Monogenetic volcanic fields: Origin, sedimentary record, and relationship with polygenetic volcanism
Károly Németh
43
5. From a definition of volcano to conceptual volcanology
Alexandru Szakács
67
6. Origin of Large Igneous Provinces: The importance of a definition
E. Cañón-Tapia
77
7. Do pyroclastics form part of a volcano?: A sedimentologist's view
A.J. (Tom) van Loon
103
8. Is Tharsis Rise, Mars, a spreading volcano?
Andrea Borgia and John B. Murray
115
9. Some challenging new perspectives of volcanology
Alexandru Szakács and Edgardo Cañón-Tapia
123