NEXT WORKSHOP IN 2012 !!
IV Collapse Caldera Workshop : 23-29 September 2012 (Bolsena, Italy)
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
I Collapse Caldera Workshop : "Caldera volcanism: Analysis, modelling and response"
16-21 October 2005 (Tenerife, Spain)
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II Collapse Caldera Workshop: "Reconstructing the evolution of collapse calderas: Magma storage, mobilisation and eruption"
19-25 October 2008 (Querétaro, Mexico)
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III Collapse Caldera Workshop : "Dynamics of caldera: collapse and unrest"
I Collapse Caldera Workshop
"Caldera volcanism: Analysis, modelling and response"
16-21 October 2005 (Tenerife, Spain)
In October 2005, Joan Marti (CSIC, Spain) and Jo Gottsmann (Univ. Bristol, UK) organised a one-week workshop on caldera volcanism. Forty participants from all over the world and from many different disciplines gathered at the Parador Hotel in the centre of the Las Cañadas Caldera Complex on Tenerife, to discuss the many unclear issues related to the origin and behaviour of calderas.
The conference proceedings incl. all abstracts are available here. The Las Cañadas caldera field guide is available upon request.
Selected papers presented during the workshop are included in the book published by Elsevier in 2008:
"CALDERA VOLCANISM, Analysis, Modelling and Response"
II Collapse Caldera Workshop
"Reconstructing the evolution of collapse calderas: Magma storage, mobilisation and eruption"
19-25 October 2008 (Querétaro, Mexico)
The workshop was dedicated to the exploration of our current understanding of processes related to the formation and the behaviour of collapse calderas. Following up on the 2005 calderas workshop held in Tenerife (Spain), the 2008 workshop provided a continuation of community efforts towards increasing our understanding of caldera volcanism. The 2008 workshop had a focus on geological aspects of caldera studies but at the same time aims at integrating other disciplines such as geophysics, magma physics, hazard assessment, risk mitigation, economic prospecting and exploration as well as mathematical and analogue modelling. As in 2005, the fundamental spirit of the workshop was to provide a cross-boundary interdisciplinary platform for discussion and knowledge disssimination.
The conference proceedings incl. all abstracts are available here.
III Collapse Caldera Workshop
"Dynamics of caldera: collapse and unrest"
3-9 October 2010 (Reunion Island)
Following the 1st and 2nd Workshop on Collapse Calderas held at Las Cañadas caldera, Tenerife, and Queretaro, Mexico, on October, 2005 and 2008, the 3rd Workshop on Collapse Calderas took plaece Reunion Island between October 3-9, 2010. Reunion Island is the site of one of the world's most active shield volcanoes, i.e. Piton de la Fournaise, which experienced the most recent caldera collapse in April 2007 and recurrent collapse events during its evolution. The island is also built by an extinct shield volcano, Piton de Neiges, whose latter activity was characterised by large explosive eruptions yielding several ignimbrites and plinian deposits.
The conference proceedings incl. all abstracts are available here.
IV Collapse Caldera Workshop
23-29 September 2012 (Vulsini calderas, Italy)
The 4th Workshop on Collapse Calderas is scheduled for September 23-29, 2012, at the charming Hotel Royal ( http://www.atihotels.it/hotelroyal/en/index.asp ) in Bolsena, on the shore of the Bolsena Lake . Bolsena is an appealing typical Italian middle-aged village on the edge of the most collapsed part of the Bolsena caldera, that is the most distinctive feature of the Vulsini Calderas District, located 100 km north of Rome .
The Vulsini District is a worldwide famous type-locality where many fundamental concepts on the eruptive dynamics, particularly those related to caldera-forming episodes, have been proposed. These include the definition of the criteria to describe, classify and interpret the pyroclastic deposits, as well as their modalities of transport and sedimentation.
More information and 2nd circular
