Radiographic imaging below a volcanic crater floor with cosmic-ray muons

American Journal of Science

Volumn 308, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 843-850

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki K M ^a,b,c   Nakano, Toshiyuki ^d   Takahashi, Satoshi ^d   Yoshida, Junnya ^d   Takeo, Minoru ^a   Oikawa, Jun ^a   Ohminato, Takao ^a   Aoki, Yosuke ^a   Koyama, Etsuro ^a   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Ohshima, Hiromitsu ^e   Maekawa, Tokumitsu ^e   Watanabe, Hidefumi ^a   Niwa, Kimio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRATER; DOME; ELEVATION; LAVA; RADIOGRAPHY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

ASAMA VOLCANO; ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 55849146696     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/07.2008.02     Document Type: Article

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