Insights on the March 1998 eruption at Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Réunion) from microgravity monitoring

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bonvalot, Sylvain ^a,b   Remy, Dominique ^a,b   Deplus, Christine ^b   Diament, Michel ^b   Gabalda, Germinal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALDERA; DATA INVERSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GRAVITY SURVEY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; REUNION;

EID: 55349104169     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005084     Document Type: Article

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