Catastrophic volcanic sector collapses in Japan: A fundamental erosion process and natural hazard in Island Arcs

Volcanoes: Formation, Eruptions and Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 77-94

  Yoshida, Hidetsugu ^a,b   Sugai, Toshihiko ^b  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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