Chapter 12 Deciphering Causes of Unrest at Explosive Collapse Calderas: Recent Advances and Future Challenges of Joint Time-Lapse Gravimetric and Ground Deformation Studies

Developments in Volcanology

Volumn 10, Issue C, 2008, Pages 417-446

  Gottsmann, Joachim ^a   Battaglia, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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EID: 76249126113     PISSN: 1871644X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1871-644X(07)00012-5     Document Type: Review

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