The Whangaehu Formation: Debris-avalanche and lahar deposits from ancestral Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand

Geomorphology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 57-79

  Keigler, Rébecca ^a   Thouret, Jean Claude ^a,b,c   Hodgson, Katherine A ^d   Neall, Vincent E ^e   Lecointre, Jérôme A ^e   Procter, Jonathan N ^e   Cronin, Shane J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Western Heights High School   (New Zealand)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Debris avalanche; Lahar; New Zealand; Ruapehu; Stratigraphy; Volcaniclastic

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS AVALANCHE; EMPLACEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAHAR; QUATERNARY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANOLOGY;

MOUNT RUAPEHU; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 79960967068     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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