Experimental craters formed by single and multiple buried explosions and implications for volcanic craters with emphasis on maars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Valentine, Greg A ^a   White, James D L ^b   Ross, Pierre Simon ^c   Amin, Jamal ^a   Taddeucci, Jacopo ^d   Sonder, Ingo ^a   Johnson, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; VOLCANOES;

CRATER MORPHOLOGY; CRATER SIZES; CUMULATIVE ENERGY; EXPLOSION ENERGY; EXPLOSIVE CHARGES; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SUB-SURFACE EXPLOSIONS;

EXPLOSIONS;

CRATER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPLOSION; MAAR; MORPHOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84867531050     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053716     Document Type: Article

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