We spent 6 hours Anak Krakatau on 16 March, having departed Bandung with personnel from VSI the preceding day. The VSI group of Kaswanda, consisted Casadevall, and MacLeod. volcanologists (Carey, Sigurdson, Seas were calm, during the morning. We picked up Forestry (PAPH) at Pulau Sertung coast of Olas, Willem, 2 Krakatau observers, Other participants included three visiting and Kristjansen) and…
striking feature of Sunda straits is the volcanic lineament running N3SE direction, from Panaitan island near Ujung Kulon Peninsula ( Java) to Sukadana (SE of Sumatra), and passing through Krakatau archipelago, Sebesi and Sebuku islands, and Mount Rajabasa (Fig. 1). In this group, Krakatau the only volcano which has had historic activity, it is also the only one with strong seismicity
Pada Oktober 1986 penulis berkesempatan untuk melakukan penyelidikan seismik G. Krakatau dengan SPPD No. 1354/0441/3402/86.
Efforts to compile a more comprehensive bibliography on the ill- famed Krakatau volcano are presently more rewarding than in the pre- viously given attsapts (Van Barem, 1931; Brodie, 1982; Da Nova, 1936, 1953; Kusumadinata et al., 1979; Nourn van Padang, 1951; Ongkosongo & Suwardi, 1981; and Soagiarto & Soegiarto, 1983). This because in the last quarter of a century (1960-1984) we are interpret…
Pumiceous tuff deposits of the 1883 Krakatau on the Rakata have been studied in terms of their mineralogical, physico-chemical, and physical properties. Two kinds of pumiceous tuff deposits were identified having similiar vitric type and hypersthene-augite association with few green hornblende and olivine.
After eruption of 1883, studies on the development or the recovery of natural ecosystem on the Krakatau Islands, especially those of vegetation and fauna, have been of great interest to many scientists. However, as far as we know, only a few studies on the soils were carried out (Ernst, 1908; Van Baren, 1931; Newsome, 1982).
The activities of Anak Krakatau are found to be phenomena of eruptive cycles in the hythms of a long-periodic developmental growth. Before the present-day activity of Anak Krakatau which started in December 1927, we know of earlier outburts of Krakatau in 1883, in 1680 and of the 5th century in the year 416 A.D.
Recent shallow seismic profilling survey by the Geological Research and Development Centre in cooperation with the Navy (AL) resulted in subsurface bottom sections which give for the first time an insight on the subsurface geology in the vicinity of the Krakatau-group (Akil and Lubis, S., 1983; Sukardjono, 1983).
Various discussions have been made by many authors as respects the eruption mechanism of Krakatau caldera (e.g. Williams, 1941; Yokoyama, 1981; Self and Rampino, 1982; Yokoyama, 1982). Accumulation of geophysical data may provide important information to clarify the problem. Yokoyama and Hadikusumo (1969) have already established the gravity stations Krakatau Islands. The low residual anomalies…