Buoyant replenishment in silicic magma reservoirs: Experimental approach and implications for magma dynamics, crystal mush remobilization, and eruption

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Girard, Guillaume ^a   Stix, John ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CRYSTAL; EMPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MIXING; REMOBILIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHYOLITE; SOLUTION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70249136402     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005791     Document Type: Article

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