Time-dependent chamber and vent conditions during explosive caldera-forming eruptions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 246-253

  Folch, A ^a   Marti J ^b  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

collapse calderas; magma chamber; modelling; ring fault

Indexed keywords

CALDERA-FORMING ERUPTIONS; COLLAPSE CALDERAS; ERUPTION RATES; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONS; FLOW CONDITIONS; GEOTHERMAL RESEARCHES; MAGMA CHAMBER; MODELLING; PRESSURE INCREASE; RING FAULT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; TIME DEPENDENTS; VENT CONDITIONS;

DROPS; MINERALS; SUBSIDENCE;

ABERRATIONS;

CALDERA; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FISSURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MAGMA CHAMBER; MODELING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 62749159927     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.035     Document Type: Article

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