Explosive lava-water interactions I: Architecture and emplacement chronology of volcanic rootless cone groups in the 1783-1784 Laki lava flow, Iceland

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 449-467

  Hamilton, Christopher W ^a   Thordarson, Thorvaldur ^b   Fagents, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explosive lava water interactions; Iceland; Laki; Mars; Phreatomagmatic; Pseudocraters; Volcanic rootless cones

Indexed keywords

DGPS; EMPLACEMENT; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAVA FLOW; MARS; PHREATOMAGMATISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSIDENCE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ICELAND; LAKI;

EID: 77952670886     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-009-0330-6     Document Type: Article

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