How will melting of ice affect volcanic hazards in the twenty-first century?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1919, 2010, Pages 2535-2558

  Tuffen, Hugh ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glaciers; Ice sheets; Lahars; Volcanic hazards; Volcano ice interaction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FEEDBACK; GLACIERS; HAZARDS; MELTING; VOLCANOES;

ACTIVE VOLCANOES; DEGLACIATIONS; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; LAHARS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; STRATOVOLCANOES; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC HAZARDS; VOLCANIC SYSTEMS;

ICE;

EID: 77953018963     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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