Pigeonholing pyroclasts: Insights from the 19 March 2008 explosive eruption of Kīlauea volcano

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 263-266

  Houghton, B F ^a   Swanson, D A ^b   Carey, R J ^a   Rausch, J ^b   Sutton, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; EXTERNAL SOURCES; MAGMATIC EXPLOSION; MAGMATIC VOLATILES; NEAR-SURFACE; PHREATIC; PHREATIC EXPLOSIONS; PREHISTORIC ERUPTIONS; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS; VOLATILE FLUX; WATER SOURCE;

DEPOSITS; EXPLOSIONS; FRAGRANCES; GROUNDWATER; VOLCANOES;

EXPLOSIVES;

EJECTA; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; MAGMA; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KILAUEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951715431     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31509.1     Document Type: Article

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