Pictorial
Monograph of the Barren Island Volcano: The Lone Active Volcano in the Indian
Subcontinent/Ravi Shanker, D. Haldar, A. Absar and S.C. Chakraborty. Kolkata,
Geological Survey of India, 2001, 88 p., $31. (Spl. Publication No. 67).Pictorial
Monograph of the Barren Island Volcano: The Lone Active Volcano in the Indian
Subcontinent/Ravi Shanker, D. Haldar, A. Absar and S.C. Chakraborty. Kolkata,
Geological Survey of India, 2001, 88 p., $31. (Spl. Publication No. 67).
Contents: Volcanoes and Volcanism. Barren Island Volcano: I. Background information: 1. Historical record. 2. Geographic description. 3. Neighbouring Volcanoes. 4. Geotectonic setting. 5. Earliest record of Volcanism. 6. Resurgent Volcanism. II. Recent Volcanism: 1. Media Uproar. 2. Coverage by the global Volcanism network, Smithsonian institution, Washington, USA. 3. The cruises. 4. The 1991 – eruption. 5. The 1995 eruption. 6. Study through Satellite imageries. 7. Fumaroles and their deposits. 8. Sea bed studies. 9. Environmental effect. The chronology of eruptions. III. Petrology and chemistry: 1. Petrological attributes. 2. Petrography. 3. Chemistry. IV. Concluding remarks: 1. Changes. 2. Summary and conclusion. 3. Epilogue. Reference and glossary.