Peter Francis
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Peter Francis 's Degrees
- PhD Volcanology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter William Francis was a British volcanologist specialising in the study of active volcanoes on both the Earth and other planets in the Solar System. He was also renowned for his ability as a communicator, reaching the general public in a series of popular and acclaimed books on his subject.
Peter Francis 's Published Works
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- Volcano monitoring using short wavelength infrared data from satellites (1988) (292)
- Volcanoes of the Central Andes (1991) (224)
- 143Nd/144Nd,87Sr/86Sr, and incompatible element variations in calc-alkaline andesites and plateau lavas from South America (1979) (201)
- Endogenous growth of persistently active volcanoes (1993) (193)
- Infrared image analysis of volcanic thermal features: Láscar Volcano, Chile, 1984–1992 (1993) (185)
- Catastrophic collapse at stratovolcanoes induced by gradual volcano spreading (1997) (185)
- Remote sensing of CO2 and H2O emission rates from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua (2000) (176)
- Relative roles of source composition, fractional crystallization and crustal contamination in the petrogenesis of Andean volcanic rocks (1984) (172)
- Volcanoes: A Planetary Perspective (1993) (167)
- Regional O-, Sr-, and Pb-isotope relationships in late Cenozoic calc-alkaline lavas of the Andean Cordillera (1984) (163)
- Remote measurements of volcanic gas compositions by solar occultation spectroscopy (1998) (160)
- A gravitational spreading origin for the Socompa debris avalanche (2001) (159)
- Ignimbrites of the Cerro Galan caldera, NW Argentina (1985) (149)
- Effusive silicic volcanism in the Central Andes: The Chao dacite and other young lavas of the Altiplano‐Puna Volcanic Complex (1994) (137)
- Rare Earth data and petrogenesis of andesite from the North Chilean Andes (1976) (137)
- Remote measurement of volcanic gases by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (1998) (136)
- Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks of the Cerro Galan caldera, northwest Argentina (1989) (134)
- Using the Landsat Thematic Mapper to detect and monitor active volcanoes: An example from Lascar volcano, northern Chile (1987) (133)
- Landsat Thematic Mapper observations of debris avalanche deposits in the Central Andes (1988) (131)
- Excessive sulfur dioxide emissions from Chilean volcanoes (1991) (131)
- The 26 December (Boxing Day) 1997 sector collapse and debris avalanche at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat (2002) (121)
- Upper Cenozoic volcanism in the Central Andes — Ages and volumes (1978) (121)
- Catastrophic debris avalanche deposit of Socompa volcano, northern Chile (1985) (119)
- The San Pedro and San Pablo volcanoes of northern Chile and their hot avalanche deposits (1974) (107)
- The Socompa collapse and avalanche event (1995) (105)
- Depletion rates of sulfur dioxide in tropospheric volcanic plumes (1998) (105)
- Neotectonic deformation of the southern Puna Plateau, northwestern Argentina (1989) (101)
- Variations in andean andesite compositions and their petrogenetic significance (1979) (100)
- Measuring thermal budgets of active volcanoes by satellite remote sensing (1989) (100)
- Remote sensing of heat, lava and fumarole emissions from Erta 'Ale volcano, Ethiopia (1997) (98)
- Asia's Maritime Bead Trade: 300 B.C. to the PResent (2002) (97)
- The relationship between degassing and ground deformation at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat (2000) (90)
- Late Cenozoic rates of magmatic activity in the Central Andes and their relationships to continental crust formation and thickening (1994) (86)
- Strontium isotope data for Recent andesites in Ecuador and North Chile (1977) (86)
- Andean andesites and crustal growth (1981) (76)
- Implications of longeval lava lakes for geomorphological and plutonic processes at Erta 'Ale volcano, Afar (1998) (75)
- The 16 September 1986 eruption of Lascar volcano, north Chile: Satellite investigations (1989) (74)
- SO2∶HCl ratios in the plumes from Mt. Etna and Vulcano determined by Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (1995) (71)
- Rates of production of the main magma types in the central Andes (1976) (66)
- Stable gas plume composition measured by OP‐FTIR spectroscopy at Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua, 1998–1999 (1999) (66)
- Monitoring SO2 emission at the Soufriere Hills Volcano: Implications for changes in eruptive conditions (1998) (63)
- Remote Sensing of Active Volcanoes (2000) (63)
- High velocity debris avalanche at Lastarria volcano in the north Chilean Andes (1987) (62)
- The origin of the 1883 Krakatau tsunamis (1985) (62)
- Remote determination of SiF4 in volcanic plumes: A new tool for volcano monitoring (1996) (60)
- Correlation of large ignimbrites — Two case studies from the Central Andes of northern Chile (1989) (58)
- Strontium isotope evidence for crustal contamination of calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from Cerro Galan, northwest Argentina (1980) (58)
- Rare earth and strontium isotope evidence concerning the petrogenesis of North Chilean ignimbrites (1979) (57)
- The Olympus Mons Aureole: Formation by gravitational spreading (1983) (56)
- The Eruption of Krakatau (1983) (55)
- Absence of silicic volcanism on Mars: Implications for crustal composition and volatile abundance (1982) (53)
- Remnants of an Early Metasedimentary Assemblage in the Lewisian Complex of the Outer Hebrides (1969) (53)
- Volcanological and petrological evolution of San Pedro volcano, Provincia EI Loa, North Chile (1986) (53)
- Setting and Significance of Tertiary-Recent Volcanism in the Darfur Province of Western Sudan (1973) (50)
- Sources of two large ignimbrites in the central andes: Some landsat evidence (1978) (50)
- The Cerro Galan ignimbrite (1983) (49)
- Diurnal changes in volcanic plume chemistry observed by lunar and solar occultation spectroscopy (2001) (49)
- Remote Geochemical Analysis; Elemental and Mineralogical Composition (1994) (43)
- Origin, effects of Masaya volcano’s continued unrest probed in Nicaragua (1999) (42)
- Petrogenesis of Andean andesites from combined O–Sr isotope relationships (1981) (40)
- Thermal distributions at fumarole fields: implications for infrared remote sensing of active volcanoes (1993) (40)
- Pyroclastic sulphur eruption at Poás volcano, Costa Rica (1980) (40)
- Large-scale Laxfordian structures of the outer hebrides in relation to those of the Scottish mainland (1970) (39)
- Experiments With Early Techniques for Making Whole Shells into Beads (1982) (38)
- Sizes of Conical Volcanoes (1973) (38)
- Giant volcanic calderas (1983) (38)
- The Cerro Galan Caldera, North-west Argentina and its tectonic setting (1978) (36)
- Mobility of pyroclastic flows (1977) (32)
- Ecology of deepwater rice-fields in Bangladesh 1. Physical and chemical environment (1988) (32)
- Application of the Landsat Thematic Mapper to the identification of potentially active volcanoes in the central Andes (1989) (30)
- Petrogenetic Relationships of Volcanic and Intrusive Rocks of the Andes (1979) (29)
- Satellite observations of the April 1993 eruption of Lascar volcano (1998) (28)
- Eruptive history of Dubbi volcano, northeast Afar (Eritrea), revealed by optical and SAR image interpretation (2000) (28)
- Remote sensing of evaporite mineral zonation in salt flats (salars) (1989) (28)
- Infra-red techniques for volcano monitoring and prediction—a review (1979) (28)
- Variation in HCl/SO2 gas ratios observed by Fourier transform spectroscopy at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat (2002) (28)
- Remote sensing of volcanos and volcanic terrains (1989) (26)
- Spectroscopic observation of HCl degassing from Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat (1998) (26)
- Potentially active volcanoes of Peru-Observations using Landsat Thematic Mapper and Space Shuttle imagery (1990) (26)
- The Kari Kari caldera, Bolivia, and the Cerro Rico stock (1981) (26)
- Granite petrogenesis and crustal evolution studies in the Damara Pan-African orogenic belt, Namibia (1986) (26)
- Magma chamber below Poàs volcano, Costa Rica (1981) (25)
- Satellite Monitoring of Volcanoes (1996) (25)
- The Relationship Between Degassing and Ground Deformation at Soufrie`re Hills Volcano (2000) (24)
- The Ongoing Eruption in Montserrat (1997) (22)
- Scourian-Laxfordian relationships in the Barra Isles (1973) (22)
- Relationships between mineralization and silicic volcanism in the Central Andes (1983) (22)
- Volcan ceboruco: A major composite volcano of the mexican volcanic belt (1975) (21)
- Volcanology from space - Using Landsat thematic mapper data in the central Andes (1986) (20)
- The Cerro Purico Shield Complex, North Chile (1984) (20)
- Strontium isotope evidence for petrogenesis of Central American andesites (1979) (18)
- Isotopic age data from Scourian intrusive rocks on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, north-west Scotland (1971) (17)
- Satellite observations of active volcanoes: Prospects for the 1990s (1992) (17)
- Importance of the geological record in understanding global change (1990) (16)
- Monitoring gases from andesite volcanoes (2000) (15)
- The 1993 Lascar pyroclastic flow imaged by JERS-1 (1996) (15)
- New methods make volcanology research less hazardous (1996) (14)
- Glass Beads in Asia, Part I. Introduction (1990) (14)
- Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences, 2 (1974) (13)
- Volcanic gas measurements by helicopter-borne Fourier transform spectroscopy (1998) (12)
- Volcanoes of the earth (1977) (12)
- Synergistic use of MOMS-01 and Landsat TM data. [Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner (1987) (11)
- Cannonball Bombs, A New Kind of Volcanic Bomb from the Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala (1973) (11)
- Volcano monitoring using interferometric SAR (1997) (10)
- Remote sensing of volcanoes (1989) (9)
- A porous flow model for the geometrical form of volcanoes - Critical comments (1982) (8)
- Eruption terms (1990) (8)
- Lascar Volcano set to erupt? (1989) (6)
- A discordant duo (1996) (6)
- Volcanoes and Climate Effects of Aerosols (1999) (5)
- Beads in Indonesia (1991) (5)
- Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences, 2: D.H. Tarling and S.K. Runcorn (editors). Academic Press, London, 1973, 1184 pp., £ 13.00 (1974) (5)
- The dynamic earth (1997) (4)
- Emitted short wavelength infrared radiation for detection and monitoring of volcanic activity (1988) (4)
- Erebus: Volcan Antarctique (1979) (4)
- Images of earth (1984) (4)
- Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer (AVNIR) observations of Mount Etna's aerosol plume (1998) (3)
- Climatic effects of volcanic eruptions (1985) (3)
- Scientists at the sharp end in a disaster zone (1998) (3)
- Some aspects of the Lewisian geology of Barra and adjacent islands (1969) (3)
- Significance of Lithologic and Morphologic Variations of Pyroclastic Cones (1974) (3)
- Volcanic contribution to crustal growth in the Central Andes: A new estimate and a discussion of uncertainties (1988) (2)
- Volcanic thermal features observed by AVIRIS (1992) (2)
- Volcano monitoring by short wavelength infrared satellite remote sensing (1988) (2)
- Volcanoes and eruptions (1977) (2)
- The bowels of the earth (1977) (1)
- Atmosphere, earth and life (1997) (1)
- Dangers hang over dependency (1996) (1)
- Volcanology (Paper 7R0193) (1987) (1)
- Indian Beads: A Cultural and Technological Study, and: Distinctive Beads in Ancient India, and: Amulets and Pendants in Ancient Maharashtra (review) (2003) (1)
- Sedimentary basins of continental margins and cratons (1978) (1)
- Silicic pyroclastic volcanism on Mars: Absence of evidence (1981) (1)
- Volcanic triggering of glaciation (1976) (1)
- Glimpses of volcanoes (1979) (0)
- Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia (1987) (0)
- Thematic mapper studies of central Andean volcanoes (1987) (0)
- S1 Volcanic Studies by Remote Sensing : South American Volcanoes (1988) (0)
- Gatastlophic collapse at stratovolcanoes i nd uced by gradual voleano spneading (2007) (0)
- (Deruelle y Brousse, 1984, Rev. Geol. Chile, no. 22, p. 345). "Nuee ardente" deposits at Tata Sabaya volcano: a re-interpretation: Discusion (1985) (0)
- Thematic Mapper studies of Andean volcanoes Six monthly report (2008) (0)
- Book reviewThe unsettled earthR. Jones (Editor), 1976. Ann Arbor Science/Wiley, Chichester, 112 pp., £ 3.80 (1977) (0)
- Volcanoes in outer space and inner space (1991) (0)
- Volcanism, global catastrophe and mass mortality (1988) (0)
- Report of the panel on volcanology, section 4 (1991) (0)
- Volcanic leitmotive (1977) (0)
- Thematic mapper studies of Andean volcanoes (1986) (0)
- Remote sensing of tropospheric volcanic aerosols II: review of sun - photometry at active volcanoes (1999) (0)
- Volcanology: last of the common ground (1982) (0)
- Reply by M. P. Coward, P. W. Francis, R. H. Graham, J. S. Myers and J. Watson (1970) (0)
- Venus lives!. [evidence for active volcanoes] (1988) (0)
- Volcanoes of the Earth, Moon and Mars Edited by G. Fielder and L. Wilson (Elek Science, £6) (1976) (0)
- Venus and the VRM mission (1985) (0)
- Pyroclastic sulphur (reply) (1981) (0)
- Fire and water (1995) (0)
- Digital Photomosaic of Viking Images 14A29-14A35: A Preliminary Look at Gangis Chasma, Mars (1988) (0)
- Variability in spectral signatures of terrestrial volcanic rocks and implications for volcanology on Mars (1987) (0)
- A geographer on well-trodden ground (1994) (0)
- Book-Review - Volcanoes - a Planetary Perspective (1993) (0)
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