Lava fountains from the 1999 Tvashtar Catena fissure eruption on Io: Implications for dike emplacement mechanisms, eruption rates, and crustal structure

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 106, Issue E12, 2001, Pages 32997-33004

  Wilson, Lionel ^a   Head, James W ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; IO; JUPITER; LAVA; PLANETARY SATELLITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0035716228     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001323     Document Type: Article

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