Textural studies of vesicles in volcanic rocks: An integrated methodology

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 190, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 271-289

  Shea, Thomas ^a   Houghton, Bruce F ^a   Gurioli, Lucia ^a   Cashman, Katharine V ^b   Hammer, Julia E ^a   Hobden, Barbara J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

stereological conversion; textural characterization; vesicle number density; vesicle shape; vesicle size distribution; vesicles; vesicularity

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC LAVA FLOW; DEGASSING PROCESS; ENDMEMBERS; INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY; NESTING STRATEGIES; NUMBER DENSITY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROCESSING TIME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE COLLECTION; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TEXTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; USER CONTROL; VESICLE SIZE; VESICULARITY;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURES; VOLCANOES;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DEGASSING; DENSITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAGMA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHAPE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURE; VESICLE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 75949083967     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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