Explosive rhyolite tuya formation: Classic examples from Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 192-209

  Stevenson, John A ^a   Gilbert, Jennie S ^b   McGarvie, David W ^a   Smellie, John L ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCENT RATE; EFFUSIVE PHASE; GAS CONTENT; GENERAL MODEL; ICE-CAPS; ICELANDS; INFLUENCE OF WATER; LITHOFACIES; PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENTS; RHYOLITE ERUPTIONS; TEPHRAS;

DEPOSITS; FLUIDIZATION; GRANITE; ICE; LAKES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; VOLCANOES;

EXPLOSIVES;

EMPLACEMENT; ICE CAP; JOKULHLAUP; LAVA; LITHOFACIES; MAGMA; MELTWATER; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; RHYOLITE; RIFT ZONE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ICELAND; KERLINGARFJOLL;

EID: 78650519719     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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