Dominant time scale for brittle fragmentation of vesicular magma by decompression

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Kameda, Masaharu ^a   Kuribara, Hideaki ^a   Ichihara, Mie ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BRITTLE FRAGMENTATION; BUBBLE WALL; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DECOMPRESSION TIME; DOMINANT TIME SCALE; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; MAGMA FRAGMENTATION; TIME-SCALES;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DECOMPRESSION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FRAGMENTATION; MAGMA; TIMESCALE;

EID: 53749102864     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034530     Document Type: Article

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