The effects of outgassing on the transition between effusive and explosive silicic eruptions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 349-350, Issue , 2012, Pages 161-170

  Degruyter, W ^a   Bachmann, O ^b   Burgisser, A ^c   Manga, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Conduit; Effusive explosive transition; Outgassing; Permeability; Textures

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE NUMBER DENSITIES; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CONDUIT; DARCY'S EQUATIONS; EFFUSIVE-EXPLOSIVE TRANSITION; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FORCHHEIMER NUMBER; FORCHHEIMER'S EQUATION; INERTIAL EFFECT; INERTIAL FORCES; MODEL PREDICTION; MOUNT ST. HELENS; SILICIC MAGMAS; SIZE RATIO; STOKES NUMBER; STRONG COUPLING; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURAL PARAMETERS; VOLCANIC CONDUIT;

EXPLOSIVES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; TEXTURES;

DEGASSING;

MAGMA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; TEXTURE;

EID: 84864566890     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.056     Document Type: Article

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