Imaging the conduit size of the dome with cosmic-ray muons: The structure beneath Showa-Shinzan Lava Dome, Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Tanaka, H K M ^a,b,c   Nakano, T ^d   Takahashi, S ^d   Yoshida, J ^d   Ohshima, H ^e   Maekawa, T ^e   Watanabe, H ^a   Niwa, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

LAVA DOME; MUON;

VOLCANOES;

COSMIC RAY; IMAGING METHOD; LAVA DOME; RADIOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; SHOWA SHINZAN;

EID: 38949111715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031389     Document Type: Article

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