Fluid dynamics of the 1997 Boxing Day volcanic blast on Montserrat, West Indies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Esposti Ongaro, T ^a   Clarke, A B ^b   Neri, A ^a   Voight, B ^c   Widiwijayanti, C ^c  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY CURRENT; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; MONTSERRAT;

EID: 44449097630     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004898     Document Type: Article

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