A simple formula for calculating porosity of magma in volcanic conduits during dome-forming eruptions

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 483-488

  Kozono, Tomofumi ^a   Koyaguchi, Takehiro ^b  

^a National Research Institute   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conduit flow; Dome forming eruptions; Gas escape from magma; Magma porosity

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; MAGMA; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POROSITY; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

EID: 77955752035     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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