New insight into explosive volcanic eruptions: Connecting crystal-scale chemical changes with conduit-scale dynamics

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 367-370

  Genareau, Kimberly ^a   Clarke, Amanda B ^a   Hervig, Richard L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CHANGE; CHEMICAL EXAMINATION; CHEMICAL PROFILES; HIGH RESOLUTION; OVER-PRESSURES; PLAGIOCLASE PHENOCRYSTS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VULCANIAN EXPLOSIONS;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPTH PROFILING; FELDSPAR; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; VOLCANOES;

EXPLOSIVES;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPRESSION; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; GROWTH RATE; LITHIUM; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MAGMA CHAMBER; P-T CONDITIONS; PHENOCRYST; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEXTURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; MONTSERRAT; SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO;

EID: 69649104629     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25561A.1     Document Type: Article

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