Overview of the eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, 18 July 1995 to December 1997

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3389-3392

  Young, Simon R ^a   Sparks, R Steven J ^b   Aspinall, Willy P ^c   Lynch, Lloyd L ^d   Miller, Angus D ^a   Robertson, Richard E A ^d   Shepherd, John B ^e  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ASPINALL AND ASSOCIATES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIONS; SEISMOLOGY; DOMES; EXPLOSIVES;

GRAVITATIONAL DOME; MAGMA PRODUCTION; PHREATIC VOLCANIC ACTIVITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

PHREATOMAGMATISM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MONTSERRAT;

CRATER WALL; DOME COLLAPSE; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; PHREATIC EXPLOSIONS; PRODUCTION RATES; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

EID: 0032531358     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01405     Document Type: Article

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