Coordination

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre 
for Geosciences

Priv. Doz. Dr. Thomas Walter
(Coordinator)
Helmholtzstraße 6/7
14467 Potsdam

Fon: +49 331 288-1253

thomas.walter(at)gfz-potsdam.de
www.gfz-potsdam.de

The Project


Lava domes are massive and volatile-poor extrusion complexes of highly viscous magma, often emplaced in a volcano summit crater region. Lava domes may intermittently destabilize, producing rock falls and pyroclastic flows, some of the most common hazards at volcanoes.

As these dome collapses are often initiated on the flanks of a lava dome, close observations of the growth and spread of the lava dome flanks are crucial. VOLCAPSE combines novel satellite radar technologies together with photogrammetry methods to monitor lava domes, and develops models for understanding the processes acting at explosive volcanoes.

Through modelling the aim is to improve understanding of the deformation style of the dome and the stress changes within and beneath.

Pyroclastic flows often originate at unstable viscous domes

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PD Dr. Thomas R. Walter
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam Germany

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