The Middle Scoria sequence: A Holocene violent strombolian, subplinian and phreatomagmatic eruption of Okmok volcano, Alaska

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-31

  Wong, Lily J ^a   Larsen, Jessica F ^b  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Basaltic andesite; Crystallization; Mafic; Okmok; Phreatomagmatic; Strombolian; Subplinian

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BASALT; COOLING; DISPERSION; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HOLOCENE; MAFIC ROCK; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANOLOGY;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; FOX ISLANDS; OKMOK VOLCANO; UMNAK ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72949100289     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-009-0301-y     Document Type: Article

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