The significance of slab-crusted lava flows for understanding controls on flow emplacement at Mount Etna, Sicily

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 193-205

  Guest, John E ^a   Stofan, Ellen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Lava flow emplacement; Lava inflation; Lava morphology; Mount Etna; Slab crusted lava; Toothpaste lava

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COOLING; DEFORMATION; MORPHOLOGY; RHEOLOGY; SEPARATION;

EPHEMERAL BOCCAS; PAHOEHOE TEXTURED FLOWS; ROPY SURFACES; SLAB-CRUSTED FLOWS;

VOLCANOES;

LAVA FLOW; VOLCANISM; VOLCANO;

CATANIA [SICILY]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18144381967     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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