Deposits and physical properties of pyroclastic density currents during complex Subplinian eruptions: The AD 472 (Pollena) eruption of Somma-Vesuvius, Italy

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 607-635

  Sulpizio, Roberto ^a   Mele, Daniela ^a   Dellino, Pierfrancisco ^a   La Volpe, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flow parameters; Pyroclastic density currents; Sedimentology; Somma Vesuvius; Subplinian eruptions

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DENSITY CURRENT; DEPOSITION; EMPLACEMENT; LITHOFACIES; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VESUVIUS;

EID: 34249057734     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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