Quantitative constraints on the growth of submarine lava pillars from a monitoring instrument that was caught in a lava flow

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Chadwick Jr , William W ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lava flow inflation; Lava pillars; Sheet flow; Submarine volcanic eruption

Indexed keywords

LAVA; MONITORING; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

AXIAL VOLCANO; JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1642375659     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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