Monitoring super-volcanoes: Geophysical and geochemical signals at Yellowstone and other large caldera systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1845, 2006, Pages 2055-2072

  Lowenstern, Jacob B ^a   Smith, Robert B ^b   Hill, David P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Caldera; Eruption; Super eruption; Super volcano; Volcano monitoring; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748102258     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1813     Document Type: Article

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