Fractal analysis of experimentally generated pyroclasts: A tool for volcanic hazard assessment

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 682-698

  Perugini, Diego ^a,b   Kueppers, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

eruptive energy; experimental volcanology; fractals; fragment size distributions; rapid decompression experiments

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; DECOMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; ERUPTIVE ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL VOLCANOLOGY; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRAGMENT SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ME-XICO; OPEN POROSITY; RATE OF INCREASE; ROCK COMPOSITION; VOLCANIC HAZARDS;

EXPERIMENTS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; GEOMECHANICS; POROSITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

HAZARDS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECT; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NAGASAKI [KYUSHU]; POPOCATEPETL; PUEBLA [MEXICO]; UNZEN VOLCANO;

EID: 84860428860     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-012-0019-7     Document Type: Article

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