High-speed imaging of Strombolian explosions: The ejection velocity of pyroclasts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Taddeucci, J ^a   Scarlato, P ^a   Capponi, A ^b   Del Bello, E ^a   Cimarelli, C ^c   Palladino, D M ^b   Kueppers, U ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EARTH'S CRUST; EJECTION VELOCITY; EMPIRICAL MODEL; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; MONITORING NETWORK; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRESSURIZED GAS; SHOCK-TUBE EXPERIMENTS; SUPERSONIC VELOCITIES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EXPLOSIVES;

DEPOSITION VELOCITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; STROMBOLI;

EID: 84855863161     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050404     Document Type: Article

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