Great explosive eruptions on Kamchatka during the last 10,000 years: Self-similar irregularity of the output of volcanic products

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Gusev, A A ^a   Ponomareva, V V ^a   Braitseva, O A ^a   Melekestsev, I V ^a   Sulerzhitsky, L D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Explosive eruption; Fractal; Kamchatka; Significance; Temporal clustering; Volcanic episodes

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0037593534     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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