Rheology and flow of crystal-bearing lavas: Insights from analogue gravity currents

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 471-480

  Castruccio, Angelo ^a,b   Rust, A C ^a   Sparks, R S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

2 D simulation; Lava flow; Rheology; Suspensions; Yield strength

Indexed keywords

2-D SIMULATION; APPARENT VISCOSITY; BIMODAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; CRYSTAL CONTENT; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; CRYSTALLINITIES; CUBIC CRYSTAL; ETNA VOLCANOS; FLOW FRONT; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY; HORIZONTAL CHANNELS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LAVA FLOWS; LIQUID VISCOSITY; N VALUE; NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOURS; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; SHEAR RATES; SHEAR THINNING; SOLID FRACTION; SUSPENSIONS; UNIMODAL; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISCOUS LIQUIDS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; YIELD STRENGTH;

CRYSTALS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW SIMULATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; CRYSTALLINITY; LAVA FLOW; MODELING; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 77956012880     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.051     Document Type: Article

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