Transient effects of magma ascent dynamics along a geometrically variable dome-feeding conduit

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 541-553

  de' Michieli Vitturi, M ^a   Clarke, A B ^a,b   Neri, A ^a   Voight, B ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Conduit dynamics; Conduit geometry; Dome building; Effusion rate; Magma ascent

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; BUBBLE GROWTH; CHAMBER PRESSURE; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONDUIT DYNAMICS; CONDUIT GEOMETRY; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; EFFUSION RATES; ERUPTION RATES; EXSOLUTION; GAS LOSS; INDONESIA; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MAGMA CHAMBER; MONOTONIC FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE EXTRUSION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT EFFECT; TRANSITION TIME; TRAVEL TIME; TWO PHASE FLOW MODEL; VARIABLE RADIUS; VOLATILE FRACTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGASSING; DOMES; DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; VOLCANOES;

METALLIC GLASS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGASSING; DOME; EXSOLUTION; FLOW MODELING; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EAST JAVA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; MERAPI; MONTSERRAT; SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 77953703127     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.029     Document Type: Article

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