Despite decadal–millennial repose periods, volcanoes of the Canary Islands pose
significant, though poorly understood hazards to local communities and infrastructure. At …

Volcano slope instability manifests in many forms, ranging from steady state to punctuated
movement, or shallow erosion to deep-seated spreading. The interplay of gravity, magmatic …

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Volcanogenic tsunamis are one of the deadliest volcanic phenomena. Understanding their
triggering processes, and mitigating their effect, remains a major challenge. On 22 …

Recent onshore and offshore investigations in the Canarian archipelago, especially in the
western islands of La Palma and El Hierro, have greatly improved the understanding of the …

Abstract The Teide and Pico Viejo stratocones and the Northwest and Northeast Rifts are
products of the latest eruptive phase of the island of Tenerife, initiated with the lateral …

Submarine landslides are distributed unevenly both in space and time. Spatially, they occur
most commonly in fjords, active river deltas, submarine canyon–fan systems, the open …

The Society makes every effort to ensure that the scientific and production quality of its
books matches that of its journals. Since 1997, all book proposals have been refereed by …

The study of geothermal systems is nowadays a topic of great importance because of the
huge amount of energy that could be converted in electricity for human consumption from …

Fogo island is a large and extremely steepsided oceanic island volcano in the Cape Verde
archipelago. It has a large (ca. 9 km across) east facing summit collapse structure, the Monte …