Lava balloons-peculiar products of basaltic submarine eruptions

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1379-1393

  Kueppers, Ulrich ^a,b   Nichols, Alexander R L ^c   Zanon, Vittorio ^b   Potuzak, Marcel ^d   Pacheco, Jose M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Azores; Cooling rate; Lava balloons; Melt inclusion; Physical volcanology; Serreta Ridge; Submarine eruption; Volatile content

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COOLING; CRACK; DEFORMATION; LAVA; MAGMA; MELT INCLUSION; OCEANIC CRUST; SEA SURFACE; SEAFLOOR; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY; WATER COLUMN;

AZORES; PORTUGAL; TERCEIRA;

EID: 84864378216     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-012-0597-x     Document Type: Article

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