The summer 1997 eruption at Pillan Patera on Io: Implications for ultrabasic lava flow emplacement

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 106, Issue E12, 2001, Pages 33105-33119

  Williams, David A ^a   Davies, Ashley G ^b   Keszthelyi, Laszlo P ^c   Greeley, Ronald ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALILEO MISSION; IO; JUPITER; LAVA FLOW; PLANETARY SATELLITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0035718614     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001339     Document Type: Article

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