Magma-sponge hypothesis and stratovolcanoes: Case for a compressible reservoir and quasi-steady deep influx at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Voight, Barry ^a   Widiwijayanti, Christina ^a   Mattioli, Glen ^b   Elsworth, Derek ^a   Hidayat, Dannie ^a   Strutt, M ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER GEOMETRY; CRUSTAL RESERVOIRS; CRYSTALLINITIES; GAS SPECIES; GEODETIC CONSTRAINTS; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE SOURCE; QUASI-STEADY; STRATOVOLCANOES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TIME HISTORY;

WATER CONTENT;

VOLCANOES;

ANDESITE; COMPRESSIBILITY; CRYSTALLINITY; DEFLATION; DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GEOMETRY; GPS; MAGMA; MINERALOGY; SPONGE; STRATOVOLCANO; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; MONTSERRAT; SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO;

EID: 76349101247     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041732     Document Type: Article

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