Experimental constraints on the crystallization of natrocarbonatitic lava flows

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1179-1193

  Mattsson, Hannes B ^a   Caricchi, Luca ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UMR 7327   (France)

Author keywords

Cooling; Crystal size distributions; Natrocarbonatite; Oldoinyo Lengai; Rheology; Textural coarsening

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA; MAGMA CHAMBER; RHEOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

OLDOINYO LENGAI; TANZANIA;

EID: 77952875986     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-009-0288-4     Document Type: Article

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