Unique strainmeter observations of Vulcanian explosions, Soufrire Hills Volcano, Montserrat, July 2003

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Voight, B ^a   Hidayat, D ^a   Sacks, S ^b   Linde, A ^b   Chardot, L ^c   Clarke, A ^d   Elsworth, D ^a   Foroozan, R ^a   Malin, P ^e   Mattioli, G ^f   McWhorter, N ^b   Shalev, E ^e   Sparks, R S J ^g   Widiwijayanti, C ^a   Young, S R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MONTSERRAT VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (Montserrat)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERUPTION VOLUME; EXSOLUTION; LAVA DOME; MASS FLUX; MINIMUM VALUE; OVER-PRESSURES; QUASI-LINEAR; STRAIN CHANGE; STRAIN DATA; STRAIN RECOVERY; STRAIN-METER; VULCANIAN EXPLOSIONS;

EXPLOSIONS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; VOLCANOES;

EXPLOSIVES;

BAROMETRY; EXPLOSION; GRAVITY WAVE; LAVA DOME; MAGMA; POROUS MEDIUM; STRAIN ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

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

EID: 77953559077     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042551     Document Type: Article

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