This file will be under construction as long as Stromboli remains active...

DEDICATED TO THE MONITORING OF STROMBOLI

- For the continuation of the Stromboli Seismic Montitoring Project of University of Udine -

This page was last modified on 17 December 1995

What's New?

This site is being mirrored in the U.S.!!!

Contents

  • The Geography of Stromboli
  • The Eruptive History of Stromboli
  • Morphological Changes of Stromboli During the Past >100 Years
  • Literature about Stromboli

    THE OTHER EOLIAN VOLCANOES

    ETNA VOLCANO

    VESUVIO VOLCANO

  • Vesuvio: One of Earth's Most Dangerous Volcanoes
  • Eruptive Characteristics and Volcanic Hazards
  • Knowing more about Vesuvio
  • Literature about Vesuvio

    THE CENTRAL ITALIAN VOLCANOES

    RECENT ERUPTIONS OF OTHER VOLCANOES

    ABOUT ME AND THE WOMAN OF MY HEART

    OTHER SITES OF VOLCANIC INTEREST

    Introduction

    Welcome to the first volcanology WWW server in Germany! You have chosen to visit (for this time, at least electronically) one of the most beautiful volcanic areas in the world, and I will try to give you an idea of it. On this and the following pages you will have the chance to visit Stromboli, some of its neighboring islands (Isole Eolie, or Aeolian Islands), Vesuvio, Etna, some less-known Italian volcanoes, and a few volcanoes in other parts of the world.

    With these pages, I intend to present a vision of Stromboli as complete as possible, but I also wish to present this volcano in a broader context and give some information about the other prominent Italian volcanic areas and central volcanoes. At this stage, this information is necessarily incomplete, but it will be more accurate and detailed with time. Just for the record, and for the pleasure of all the volcanophiles around, I occasionally present images of recent or ongoing eruptions that are not available elsewhere on the WWW at that moment. I am proud to say that it has been this site that first had images of the 1995 eruptions of Fogo, Metis Shoal, Kuju, and Cerro Negro, even if they were within days superseded by much more brilliant images on other WWW sites.

    ENJOY!!!

    Thank you's

    Alla donna del mio cuore... Giada Giuntoli. To the fabulous story that began on 6 November 1990 on the island of Vulcano, and all its enchanting chapters.

    Much of my knowledge of the Eolian Islands has been gained by making field trips together with other volcanologists and geologists, when I was acting as a local field guide but in fact was being guided myself to those marvellous places. Among those who led me to this knowledge there were

    Linda and Steve Malone of the University of Washington;

    Marilyn and Peter Schiffman of UC Davis, California;

    Philip Kyle, Bill McIntosh and their colleagues and wives
    of New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology, Socorro;

    and last but least, for the good company in many years,
    lots of fun and tremendous food: Jon Dehn of the Geological Survey of Japan (Hokkaido Branch).

    I have acquired some of the information appearing in the more "scientific" parts of this site from very pleasant conversations with friends and colleagues from Italy. I wish to express my particular gratitude to Natale Calanchi and Claudio Tranne of Dipartimento di Scienze Mineralogiche at the University of Bologna, and Roberto Carniel at the Dipartimento di Georisorse e Territorio at the University of Udine.

    A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission (Rush, 1987)

    ...and this is how we look like (Giada Giuntoli and Boris Behncke, on the summit of Stromboli, 20 April 1995)


    ...and this is the town where this page comes from (Kiel's city hall with its 100-m-high tower, winter of 1993-94, reflecting in the windows of the theatre)

    To Geomar Volcanology home page (not yet ready)


    Please send your comments to

    bbehncke@geomar.de