Introduction to Special Section on How Volcanoes Work: Part 2

Abstract

The special section on “How Volcanoes Work” is a collection of some of the nearly 300 papers presented at the Hawaii Symposium on How Volcanoes Work, held in Hilo in January 1987 [Tilling, 1987a]. The response of the symposium participants to the invitation to submit their papers for consideration in the special section exceeded expectations. In all, more than 70 manuscripts were received, reviewed, and handled following regular JGR editorial procedures.Part 1 of the special section, composed of the papers that were processed and accepted in time to meet the production schedule, was published in the December 1987 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research‐Solid Earth and Planets [Tilling, 1987a]. Even though part 1 contained only eight papers, it nonetheless provided a representative sampling of the multidisciplinary nature of the investigations undertaken to improve our understanding of volcanic systems. The papers published in part 1 included ground deformation studies on caldera systems [Dzurisin and Yamashita, 1987; Mortensen and Hopkins, 1987], geochemical and observational studies of the lava fountains and of volcanic fume during the 1983–1984 activity of Pu'u 'O'o in Kilauea's east rift zone [Crowe et al., 1987; Head and Wilson, 1987], magmatic crystal stratigraphy and theoretical petrology [Pearce et al., 1987; Russell, 1987], dynamics of active lava lakes [Tilling, 1987b], and seismic evidence for a subcrustal intrusive complex beneath the Island of Oahu, Hawaii [ten Brink and Brocher, 1987].