The Cerro Chopo basaltic cone (Costa Rica): An unusual completely reversed graded pyroclastic cone with abundant low vesiculated cannonball juvenile fragments

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 201, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 163-177

  Alvarado, Guillermo E ^a,b   Pérez, Wendy ^b,c   Vogel, Thomas A ^d   Gröger, Heike ^e   Patiño, Lina ^d  

^a INSTITUTO COSTARRICENSE DE ELECTRICIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cannonball bombs; Cerro Chopo; Costa Rica; Pyroclastic cone; Reverse grading

Indexed keywords

CANNONBALL BOMBS; CERRO CHOPO; COSTA RICA; PYROCLASTIC CONE; REVERSE GRADING;

OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE);

CINDER CONE; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; LAVA FLOW; MAGMATISM; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; TEPHRA; THOLEIITIC BASALT; VENTING; VESICLE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

CORDILLERA DE GUANACASTE; COSTA RICA;

SCORIAS;

EID: 79953031215     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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