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The individual chapters that follow are linked by my motivation to understand complex explosive volcanic behavior and to reduce associated hazards. Pyroclastic eruptive behavior, including pyroclastic surges and Vulcanian explosions, is poorly understood and difficult to documen…

Volcanic deposits on the Moon offer an invaluable opportunity to study its interior and geologic evolution. Volcanic materials erupted onto the surface represent samples of the interior, whose properties provide information about magma source regions at depth, conditions encount…

Venus and Earth are planets similar in size, mass, and presumed internal heat budget, and thus one might expect similar processes of heat transfer recorded at the surface. However, Venus lacks plate tectonics and therefore its heat transfer mechanisms are unknown. Due to the pla…