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Bag of Lava Fragments from Sakurajima Volcano

Alfred Anderson

Bag of Lava Fragments from Sakurajima Volcano

Adirondack “Big Stick” Tony Oliva baseball bat

Alfred Anderson Papers

Alfred (Fred) Anderson is a professor of Department of Geophysical Sciences and volcanologist. He has studied stratigraphic variations found in large-volume pyroclastic deposits such as the Bishop Tuff, California. In the laboratory, he has also used the tools at hand to break up lava specimens into smaller fragments for more detailed examination.