Volcano Videos

         Description and distribution of volcano types with a quiz at the end.
         Volcanic Land Forms.

Mount St. Helens
         Mt St Helens 1 (short)
         Mt St Helens 2 (short)
         Mt St Helens 3 is a longer video but addresses the issues of predicting eruptions


More videos on volcanoes.
         Cinder cone formation.
         Past Yellostone eruptions.
	 Short summary of Volcano Types and characteristics.
         Active cinder cone in mexican farm field.
         Nova volcano types video clip.
         Kilauea A'A lava flow.
         Hawaii pahoehoe lava flow.
         Hawaii news clip about past eruptions.
         Deep Sea Vents: volcanic activity at mid ocean ridges (with Bill Nye).
         Deep=sea volcanic vents of the world
         Ash eruption of stratovolcano (composite volcano) in Mexico.
         Mazama Ash; the ash layer from the eruption that created Crater Lake.

         The Yellowstone hot spot link shows the effect of the motion of the North American tectonic plate over the mantle hot spot as a trail of successively younger extinct 
         (solidified) magma chambers leading to the current active chamber under Yellowstone Park.

         A short video on describing eruptions in Yellowstone's past and putting them to scale against the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption
         A full-length documentary NOVA: The volcano Under Yellowstone
         A dramatization of what a eruption of the Yellowstone volcano might be like.  
              Reasonably factual (except for their holographic computer simulation, which I would so like to have), but also fairly realistic in
              its depiction of what happens to people in a volcanic eruption, just so you are warned.  Some scenes may be disturbing.

         A video on an ancient supervolcano in Arizona



     PBS NOVA: mount Pinatubo: how geologists predict volcanic eruptions.

Other volcano videos:
     Vanuatu Island Lava Lake
     Volcanoes
     Hawaiian lava flows
     Getting too close to a lava lake (strong language warning)
     Mount Etna
     Mount Nyiragongo
     Pyroclastic flows 
     Lahars