Satellite-based evidence for a large hydrothermal system at Piton de la Fournaise volcano (Reunion Island)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Gouhier, Mathieu ^a   Coppola, Diego ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STRUCTURES; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LAVA EFFUSION; MAGMATIC SOURCES; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE VOLCANO;

VOLCANOES;

COLLAPSE; CRATER; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MAGMATISM; SATELLITE DATA; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; REUNION;

EID: 79251582907     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046183     Document Type: Article

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