Prof. Dr. Alexander Belousov

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeology
Keywordsdebris avalanche, large-scale landslide, volcanic hazard, volcanic oceanic island, volcanology

Current contact address

CountryRussian Federation
CityPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
InstitutionRussian Academy of Sciences
InstituteInstitute of Volcanology and Seismology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich SchminckeGEOMAR - Abteilung Vulkanologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2000

Programme(s)

1998Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007Carter A., Ramsey M., and Belousov A.: Detection of a new summit crater on Bezymianny volcano lava dome: satellite and field-based thermal data. . In: Bulletin of Volcanology, 2007, 811-815
2007Belousov A, Voight B, Belousova M: Directed blasts and blast-currents: a comparison of the Bezymianny 1956, Mount St Helens 1980, and Soufriere Hills, Montserrat 1997 eruptions and deposits. . In: Bulletin of Volcanology, 2007, 701-740
2006Alexander Belousov: Maars of Kamchatka: distribution and mechanism of their formation. . In: Transactions of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Earth Science Sections 406: 492-495, 2006, 492-495
2005Gurenko A., Belousov A.B., Trumbull R, Sobolev A.: Explosive basaltic volcanism of the Chikurachki volcano (Kurile islands, Russia): insights on pre-eruptive magmatic conditions and volatile budget revealed from phenocryst-hosted melt inclusions and groundmass glasses. . In: Journal Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2005, 203-232
2005Alexander Belousov, Thomas Walter, Valentine Troll: Large-scale failures on domes and stratovolcanoes situated on caldera ring faults: sand box modeling and natural examples from Kamchatka, Russia. . In: Bulletin of Volcanology, 2005, 457-468
2005Valentine Troll, Beatrice Cailleau,Thomas Walter, Alexander Belousov, Hans-Ulrich Schmincke: Rift zone reorganization through flank instability in ocean ialand volcanoes: an example from Tenerife, Canary islands. . . 2005. 281-291
2003Alexander Belousov, Marina Belousova, Sergei Grishin, Pavel Krestov: Historical eruptions of Chikurachki volcano (Paramushir Island, Kuriles). . In: Volcanology and Seismology , 2003, 15-34
2002Alexander Belousov, Barry Voight, Marina Belousova, Anatoly Petukhin: Powerful pyroclastic surge in the May 8-10, 1997 explosive eruption of Bezymianny volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. . In: Bulletin of Volcanology , 2002, 455-471
2002Barry Voight, Jean-Christophe Komorowski, Jill Norton,Alexander Belousov et al.: The 26 December (Boxing Day) 1997 sector collapse and debris avalanche at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat.. In: Timothy Druitt and Peter Kokelaar, The Eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, from 1995 to 1999. . Geological Society Publishing House, 2002. 363-407
2001Alexander Belousov, Marina Belousova: Eruptive process, effects and deposits of the 1996 and ancient basaltic phreatomagmatic eruptions in Karymskoye lake, Kamchatka, Russia. . In: James White and Nancy Riggs, Lacustrine Volcanoclastic Sedimentation . Blackwell Science, 2001. 235-260
2000Alexander Belousov, Marina Belousova: Deposits and sequence of events during Bezymyanny eruption on March 30, 1956(Kamchatka). Directed blast deposits. . In: Volcanology and Seismology , 2000, 117-141
2000Alexander Belousov, Marina Belousova: Formation of partially submerged tuff ring during the 1996 sublacustrine surtseyan eruption in Karymskoye lake, Kamchatka, Russia. . In: Terra Nostra, 2000, 42-52
2000Alexander Belousov, Barry Voight, Marina Belousova, Yaroslav Muravyev: Tsunamis generated by subaquatic volcanic explosions: unique data from 1996 eruption in Karymskoye lake, Kamchatka, Russia. . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics , 2000, 1135-1143