Magma production and growth of the lava dome of the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, West Indies: November 1995 to December 1997

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3421-3424

  Sparks, R S J ^a   Young, S R ^b   Barclay, J ^a   Calder, E S ^a   Cole, P ^c   Darroux, B ^d   Davies, M A ^e   Druitt, T H ^f   Harford, C ^a   Herd, R ^b   James, M ^g   Lejeune, A M ^a   Loughlin, S ^b   Norton, G ^b   Skerrit, G ^a,d   Stasiuk, M V ^g   Stevens, N S ^h   Toothill, J ^g   Wadge, G ^h   Watts, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d MONTSERRAT VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (Montserrat)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; VOLCANOES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

LAVA DOMES; MAGMA PRODUCTION; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

GEOPHYSICS; DOMES;

MAGMATISM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MONTSERRAT;

AVERAGE RATE; DISCHARGE RATES; LAVA DOME; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; MONTSERRAT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW DEPOSITS; SHORT TERM;

EID: 0032531318     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00639     Document Type: Article

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