Effects of megascale eruptions on Earth and Mars

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 453, Issue , 2009, Pages 37-53

  Thordarson, Thorvaldur ^a   Rampino, Michael ^b   Keszthelyi, Laszlo P ^c   Self, Stephen ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FLOODS; PLANETS; VOLCANOES;

EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; FLOOD BASALT; HUMAN CIVILIZATION; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; MOST LIKELY; VOLATILE EMISSIONS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC GAS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EARTH; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FLOOD BASALT; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GAS; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 74949117879     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.453(04)     Document Type: Article

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