Rheology and topography control the path of a lava flow: Insight from numerical simulations over a preexisting topography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Miyamoto, Hideaki ^a,b   Papp, Kenneth R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VISCOSITY;

LAVA FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC HAZARDS;

VOLCANOES;

LAVA FLOW; RHEOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 7044271176     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020626     Document Type: Article

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