Energy consumption by magmatic fragmentation and pyroclast ejection during Vulcanian eruptions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 60-69

  Alatorre Ibargüengoitia, Miguel A ^a   Scheu, Bettina ^a   Dingwell, Donald B ^a   Delgado Granados, Hugo ^b   Taddeucci, Jacopo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

energy; experiment; fragmentation; Popocat petl volcano; pyroclast velocity; Vulcanian eruption

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES; CAPROCK; DECOMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; EJECTION VELOCITY; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FRAGMENTATION; GAS PRESSURES; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INITIAL PRESSURE; INTACT ROCKS; MINIMUM PRESSURE; PARTICLE MIXTURES; PORE FRACTION;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY BALANCE; EXPLOSIVES; KINETIC ENERGY; VOLCANOES;

EXPERIMENTS;

ENERGY BALANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRAGMENTATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; POROUS MEDIUM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

COLIMA; COLIMA VOLCANO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; POPOCATEPETL; PUEBLA [MEXICO];

EID: 75949099507     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.051     Document Type: Article

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