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Classes: This module has been used in an Introductory Physical Volcanology course with upper level undergraduates.
In the class, the module was introduced during lab to be completed as homework due the following week. Students turned in hard-copies of the Excel spreadsheets and graphs, as well as their working Excel files. This worked well for junior and senior level students with excellent quantitative skills.
Description and Teaching Materials
If the embedded spreadsheets are not visible, save the PowerPoint file to disk and open it from there. The movie file is provided separately and is required for the End of Module assignment.
This PowerPoint file is the student version of the module. An instructor version is available by request. The instructor version includes the completed spreadsheet. Send your request to Len Vacher (firstname.lastname@example.org) by filling out and submitting the Instructor Module Request Form.
Teaching Notes and Tips
This module, like the others in this collection, works best if coordinated with lecture and lab material.
If students have difficulty in getting their equations to produce the correct numbers in the orange cells – especially if their results are off by orders of magnitude – tell them to check their unit conversions. You cannot ever emphasize unit conversions enough.
Some students jump ahead to the end-of-module assignments without working through the main part of the module carefully. Those students have trouble.
The end-of-module questions can be used for assessment.
The instructor version contains a pre-test
References and Resources
GIffiths, R.W., 2000, The dynamics of lava flows, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 32: 477-518.
Kilburn, C.R.J., 2000, Lava flows and flow fields. In: Sigurdsson, H. (Editor-in-Chief). Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Academic Press, San Diego, 291-305.
Kilburn, C.R.J., and G. Luongo (eds.), 1993, Active lava flows: monitoring and modelling, UCL Press, London.
Sakimoto, S.E.H., and T. Gregg, 2001, Channelized flow: Analytical solutions, laboratory experiments, and applications to lava flows, Journal of Geophysical Research 106: 8629-8648.