Three-dimensional computational axial tomography scan of a volcano with cosmic ray muon radiography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki K M ^a   Taira, Hideaki ^a   Uchida, Tomihisa ^b   Tanaka, Manobu ^b   Takeo, Minoru ^a   Ohminato, Takao ^a   Aoki, Yosuke ^a   Nishitama, Ryuichi ^a   Shoji, Daigo ^a   Tsuiji, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; GEOACCUMULATION; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

ASAMA VOLCANO; CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 79251534397     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007677     Document Type: Article

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