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Volcanic landslide, the Glossary

A volcanic landslide or volcanogenic landslide is a type of mass wasting that takes place at volcanoes.^[1]

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Volcanic landslides

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members).

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Amphitheatre

An amphitheatre (British English) or amphitheater (American English; both) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.

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Anak Krakatoa

Anak Krakatoa (Anak Krakatau)English translation and common name: Child of Krakatoa is a volcanic island in Indonesia.

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Ariake Sea

The is a body of salt water surrounded by Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, and Kumamoto Prefectures, all of which lie on the island of Kyūshū in Japan.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Bulletin of Volcanology

The Bulletin of Volcanology is a peer reviewed scientific journal that is published ten times per year by Springer Science+Business Media.

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Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

The Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1963, which reports current research on all aspects of the Earth sciences.

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Canadian Science Publishing

Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is Canada's largest publisher of international scientific journals.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cheekye Fan

The Cheekye Fan is a large landslide feature in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, at the head of Howe Sound. Volcanic landslide and Cheekye Fan are volcanic landslides.

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Copernicus Publications

Copernicus Publications (also: Copernicus GmbH) is a publisher of scientific literature based in Göttingen, Germany.

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Debris flow

Debris flows are geological phenomena in which water-laden masses of soil and fragmented rock flow down mountainsides, funnel into stream channels, entrain objects in their paths, and form thick, muddy deposits on valley floors.

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and other planets, including extrasolar ones.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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East Molokai Volcano

The East Molokai Volcano, sometimes also known as Wailau for the Wailau valley on its north side, is an extinct shield volcano comprising the eastern two-thirds of the island of Molokaokinai in the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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European Geosciences Union

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet." The organisation has headquarters in Munich, Germany.

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Explosive eruption

In volcanology, an explosive eruption is a volcanic eruption of the most violent type.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine.

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Geologic record

The geologic record in stratigraphy, paleontology and other natural sciences refers to the entirety of the layers of rock strata.

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Geological Society of America Bulletin

The Geological Society of America Bulletin (until 1960 called The Bulletin of the Geological Society of America and also commonly referred to as GSA Bulletin) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published by the Geological Society of America since 1890.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Hilina Slump

The Hilina Slump, on the south flank of the Kīlauea Volcano on the southeast coast of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, is the most notable of several landslides that ring each of the Hawaiian Islands. Volcanic landslide and Hilina Slump are volcanic landslides.

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Horseshoe

A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear.

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Hummock

In geology, a hummock is a small knoll or mound above ground.

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Iliwerung

Iliwerung or Illiwerung is a complex volcano forming a prominent south-facing peninsula on Lembata Island in southern Indonesia.

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International Journal of Remote Sensing

The International Journal of Remote Sensing is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on remote sensing.

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Journal of Geophysical Research

The Journal of Geophysical Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

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Journal of the Geological Society

The Journal of the Geological Society is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of London.

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Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research is a scientific journal that publishes recent research on the fields of volcanology and geothermal activity, as well as the societal and environmental impact of these phenomenon.

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Kīlauea

Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Koʻolau Range

Koolau Range is a name given to the dormant fragmented remnant of the eastern or windward shield volcano of the Hawaiian island of Ookinaahu.

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Lahar

A lahar (from ꦮ꧀ꦭꦲꦂ) is a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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List of landslides

This list of landslides is a list of notable landslides and mudflows divided into sections by date and type.

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Magma

Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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Mass wasting

Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.

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Meager Creek

Meager Creek is a creek in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada.

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Metasomatism (from the Greek μετά metá "change" and σῶμα sôma "body") is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids.

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Mount Bandai

is a stratovolcano located in Inawashiro-town, Bandai-town, and Kitashiobara village, in Yama-Gun, Fukushima prefecture.

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Mount Elgon

Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale.

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Mount Garibaldi

Mount Garibaldi (known as Nch'ḵay̓,, to the indigenous Squamish people) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Pacific Ranges in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Mount Meager (British Columbia)

Mount Meager (also known as The Cathedral, or Q̓welq̓welústen in the St'at'imcets (Lillooet) language) is a mountain in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada.

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Mount Meager massif

The Mount Meager massif is a group of volcanic peaks in the of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier, also known as Tahoma, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the United States.

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Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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National Oceanography Centre

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is a marine science research and technology institution based across two sites, one in Southampton and one in Liverpool, England.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Natural Resources Canada

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan; Ressources naturelles Canada; label)Natural Resources Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Natural Resources.

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Nuʻuanu Slide

Nuʻuanu Slide or Nuʻuanu Debris Avalanche is the largest of seventeen known submarine landslides around the Hawaiian Islands and at in length, one of the largest landslides on Earth. Volcanic landslide and Nuʻuanu Slide are volcanic landslides.

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Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Osceola Mudflow

The Osceola Mudflow, also known as the Osceola Lahar, was a debris flow and lahar in the U.S. state of Washington that descended from the summit and northeast slope of Mount Rainier, a volcano in the Cascade Range during a period of eruptions about 5,600 years ago.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society.

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Popocatépetl

Popocatépetl (Popōcatepētl) is an active stratovolcano located in the states of Puebla, Morelos, and Mexico in central Mexico.

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Pyroclastic flow

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of but is capable of reaching speeds up to.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_landslide

Also known as Volcanic landslides, Volcano landslide, Volcano landslides, Volcanogenetic landslides, Volcanogenic landslide.

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Volcanic landslides

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