Dynamics, stratigraphy and proximal dispersal of supraglacial tephra during the ice-confined 2004 eruption at Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1057-1082

  Jude Eton, T C ^a   Thordarson, T ^a   Gudmundsson, M T ^b   Oddsson, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Basalt; Explosive eruption; Glacio volcanism; Gr msv tn; Phreatomagmatic; Tephra dispersal

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE; PUMICE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEXTURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

GRIMSVOTN; ICELAND;

EID: 84862599954     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-012-0583-3     Document Type: Article

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