Books about the volcanoes in Italy

Volcanoes of Light - by our VolcanoDiscovery Team member Marco Fulle!

Volcanoes of Light - a Photographic Journey on Sicily's Volcanoes
by VolcanoDiscovery Team member Marco Fulle
Written by VolcanoDiscovery Team member Marco Fulle, this photographic book tells a personal and poetic view of Sicily's volcanoes: Stromboli, Vulcano and Etna. It is also a richliy illustrated account of the recent eruptive history of Stromboli and Etna, where photographic magician Marco Fulle captures unique moments on film.

144 pages (width 24 cm, height 22 cm), 181 color photographs, 56 of which in full page and 5 in double page.
Rebus Edizioni (2004).

English text by Amara Graps. German version (translated by Tom Pfeiffer) available soon.

Feedback: «What a labor of love. I adore the book and your photography. Truly a captivating work. Congratulations!» Steve and Donna O'Meara, Volcano Watch International

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Note: More book recommandations, specific to individual volcanoes/regions can often be found inside the sections devoted to the individual areas/volcanoes from the menu.

Italy's volcanoes - recommended books:

Italian Volcanoes (Classic Geology in Europe 2)

by Chris Kilburn, Bill McGuire

Terra Publishing (UK) (September 1, 2001)

Paperback (166 pages)

"Italian Volcanoes" presents the origin and geology of Itay's volcanism and has individual chapters devoted to each active volcano. It contains descriptions and geological information for a number of important eruptions (e.g. the huge eruption of Etna in 1669) and modern interpretations to explain the causes and underlying processes. For Etna, it has 39 pages divided into general descriptions and a field guide. As the companion book "Volcanoes of Europe", "Italian Volcanoes" provide well-written and easily understandable information for everyone seriously interested in the fascinating world of active volcanism in Italy. more...

Advanced to scientific level:

Plio-Quaternary Volcanism in Italy: Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics

by Angelo Peccerillo

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg (August 2005)

Hardcover (379 pages)

Brand new, this book can be regarded a compendium and essential database for petrology and geochemistry of the volcanic areas in Central-Southern Italy and the Tyrrhenian Sea, where extensive Plio-Quaternary magmatic activity occurs. The rock compositions include crustal anatectic granites and rhyolites, tholeiitic, calc-alkaline, shoshonitic volcanics, and potassic to ultrapotassic and Na-alkaline volcanics. This very wide compositional variation makes Italian magmatism one of the most complex petrological issues, the understanding of which is a challenge for modern petrology and geochemistry. This book summarises the petrological, geochemical and volcanological characteristics of Italian Plio-Quaternary volcanism, and discusses petrogenetic hypotheses and possible geodynamics settings. The book is written for petrologists and geochemists, but fundamental geochemical information is well presented and the use of excessive jargon is avoided, making the book readable to a wide audience of Earth scientists. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing a database of volcanic rock analyses compiled in the last two to three decades. more...

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