Cyclic processes and factors leading to phreatic eruption events: Insights from the 25 September 2007 eruption through Ruapehu Crater Lake, New Zealand

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 15-32

  Christenson, B W ^a   Reyes, A G ^a   Young, R ^b   Moebis, A ^c   Sherburn, S ^a   Cole Baker, J ^a   Britten, K ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

hydrothermal eruptions; magmatic volatile emission; Mt Ruapehu; numerical modelling; volcanic crater lakes

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; ALTERATION PHASIS; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; CRATER LAKE; CYCLIC PROCESS; ELEMENTAL SULPHUR; EMISSION RATES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GLASS MATERIALS; HEATING CYCLES; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROTHERMAL ERUPTIONS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MAGMATIC ERUPTION; MAGMATIC VOLATILES; MASS FLUX; MASS TRANSPORT; MASS-DISCHARGE; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MOLE RATIO; NATROALUNITE; NEW ZEALAND; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES; PHASE LIQUIDS; PHREATIC; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE TRANSMITTING MEDIUMS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT CODES; TEMPERATURE CYCLING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BALLISTICS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EXPLOSIVES; GLASS; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SEALING (FINISHING); SULFUR; VOLCANOES;

LAKES;

CRATER LAKE; EJECTA; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHREATOMAGMATISM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MOUNT RUAPEHU; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 77349101600     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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