The 2005 eruption of Barren Volcano: An explosive inner arc volcanism in Andaman Sea

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1195-1202

  Pal, Tapan ^a   Bandopadhyay, P C ^a   Mitra, S K ^a   Raghav, S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Andamans; Ash cloud; Barren Island; Cinder cone; High alumina basalt; Island arc tholeiite; Pyroclast; Strombolian type; Vitrophyric

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; ISLAND ARC; LAVA; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANDAMAN SEA; ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; BARREN ISLAND; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548149566     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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