Explosive fragmentation criteria and velocities for vesicular magma

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 237-238, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-96

  McGuinness, M J ^a   Scheu, B ^b   Fowler, A C ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Explosive fragmentation; Fragmentation velocity; Mathematical model; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXPLOSIVE FRAGMENTATION; NATURAL ROCKS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PRIMARY FRAGMENTATION; PRIMARY FRAGMENTS; SHOCK-TUBE EXPERIMENTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHOCK TUBES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EXPERIMENTS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRAGMENTATION; MAGMA; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84862749910     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.05.019     Document Type: Article

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