Pyroclastic stratigraphy of the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat - implications for the present eruption

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3393-3396

  Roobol, M J ^a   Smith, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASH FLOW; PYROCLASTIC STRATIGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON GASES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; BLOCK-AND-ASH FLOW DEPOSITS; ERUPTIVE HISTORY; MONTSERRAT; RADIOCARBON AGE; SHEET-LIKE;

EXPLOSIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANOES; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITS;

PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MONTSERRAT;

EID: 0032531339     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00643     Document Type: Article

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