Stable gas plume composition measured by OP-FTIR spectroscopy at Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua, 1998-1999

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3497-3500

  Horrocks, Lisa ^a,b   Burton, Mike ^b   Francis, Peter ^b   Oppenheimer, Clive ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANOES;

NON-ERUPTIVE PLUME GAS;

GEOPHYSICS;

FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; PLUME; VOLCANIC GAS; VOLCANISM;

NICARAGUA;

EID: 0033500725     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008383     Document Type: Article

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