Cone morphologies associated with shallow marine eruptions: East Pico Island, Azores

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2289-2301

  Mitchell, Neil C ^a   Stretch, Rachelle ^b   Oppenheimer, Clive ^b   Kay, Daniel ^a   Beier, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone morphologies; Pico Island; Shallow marine eruptions; Volcaniclastic material

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; LAVA; SHALLOW WATER; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

AZORES; PICO; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84870693287     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-012-0662-5     Document Type: Article

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