Leucite crystals: Surviving witnesses of magmatic processes preceding the 79AD eruption at Vesuvius, Italy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 88-98

  Shea, Thomas ^a   Larsen, Jessica F ^b   Gurioli, Lucia ^a   Hammer, Julia E ^a   Houghton, Bruce F ^a   Cioni, Raffaello ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

crystallization kinetics; decompression experiments; leucite; magma chamber; phonolite; Vesuvius

Indexed keywords

DECOMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; LEUCITE; MAGMA CHAMBER; PHONOLITE; VESUVIUS;

CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTS; FELDSPAR; MINERALS; STEEL METALLURGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DECOMPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; LEUCITE; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; NUCLEATION; PHONOLITE; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PUMICE; REACTION KINETICS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VESUVIUS;

PLINIA;

EID: 63149187084     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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