The Volcanoes of the World database is a catalog of Holocene and Pleistocene volcanoes, and eruptions from the past 12,000 years.

This impressive scientific resource presents up-to-date information on ten thousand years of volcanic activity on Earth. In the decade and a half since the previous edition was published new studies have refined assessments of the ages of many volcanoes, and several thousand new eruptions have been documented. This edition updates the book's key components: a directory of volcanoes active during the Holocene; a chronology of eruptions over the past ten thousand years; a gazetteer of volcano names, synonyms, and subsidiary features; an extensive list of references; and an introduction placing these data in context. This edition also includes new photographs, data on the most common rock types forming each volcano, information on population densities near volcanoes, and other features, making it the most comprehensive source available on Earth's dynamic volcanism.

This book is the first work that provides the ultimate data about chemical composition of the Kamchatka Quaternary andesites. Besides the book provides data about a phase analysis of andesites, geochemical composition, REE composition and isotopic analysis of strontium, neodymium and oxygen. The analyses are prominent for their stratification and accurate geological positioning. This allows understanding how the geological events alternated. The paper is focused on the petrogenetic peculiarities of tholeiitic (the 1st type of mantle genesis) and calc-alkali (the 2nd type of mantle-crust genesis) andesites. The book stresses that petrochemical, petrological and isotopic-geochemical correlators play a great role in distinguishing of those two types of andesites. On the basis of petrochemical database we distinguished three trends of the volcanites differentiation: stable, unstable and intermediate. These trends are supposed to be used for the determination of the volcanic activity character and types of the volcanic eruptions.
This book will be helpful as a reference guide to volcanologists, petrographers, geochemists and geologists, to those who study the genesis of volcanic rocks.

Первая часть работы посвящена основным вопросам четвертичного вулканизма Срединного хребта Камчатки. Рассматривается соотношение пород фундамента и четвертичных эффузивов, расчленение четвертичных эффузивов на отдельные возрастные комплексы и выделяются два этапа в четвертичном вулканическом цикле излияний. Приводится характеристика особенностей вулканической деятельности обоих этапов, петрографо-петрохимический анализ продуктов извержений, а также рассматривается структурное положение четвертичных эффузивов и доказывается, что выделенные этапы четвертичного вулканизма соответствуют определенным стадиям геосинклинального цикла в развитии земной коры. В заключение приводятся история четвертичного вулканизма, геологический эффект четвертичных излияний, а также сравнительная характеристика его с другими вулканическими зонами Камчатки и сопредельными территориями.