Deposit architecture and dynamics of the 2006 block-and-ash flows of Merapi Volcano, Java, Indonesia

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1573-1612

  Charbonnier, Sylvain J ^a,b   Gertisser, Ralf ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Block and ash flows; Emplacement mechanisms; Flow parameters; Merapi volcano; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

AFTER-FLOW; ANGLE OF REPOSE; BLOCK-AND-ASH FLOW; BLOCK-AND-ASH FLOW DEPOSITS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEPOSIT MORPHOLOGY; DOWNSLOPE; FLOW MECHANISMS; FLOW PARAMETERS; FLOW PULSE; FLOW TYPE; FLOW VOLUMES; FRICTIONAL FORCES; GENERATION MECHANISM; GRAIN FLOW; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INDONESIA; INERTIAL FLOW; INITIAL FLOW; INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MERAPI VOLCANOS; MOVING MASS; ON FLOW; PYROCLASTIC FLOWS; RAINY SEASONS; RIVER VALLEY; RUNOUT DISTANCES; SUB-UNITS; SURFACE FLOW; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

DYNAMICS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

DEPOSITS;

ASH FLOW; DEPOSITION; EMPLACEMENT; EROSION; GRAIN SIZE; LITHOLOGY; MOBILITY; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EAST JAVA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; MERAPI; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 80052904674     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01226.x     Document Type: Article

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