Central San Juan caldera cluster: Regional volcanic framework

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 346, Issue , 2000, Pages 9-69

  Lipman, Peter W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVES; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; LANTHANUM; SUBSIDENCE;

EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FAULT DEVELOPMENT; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS; MAGMA GENERATION; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; VOLCANIC PROCESS;

VOLCANOES;

ANDESITE; ASH FLOW; CALDERA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DACITE; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; LAVA FLOW; VOLCANIC ROCK;

COLORADO; FISH CANYON; NICARAGUA; RIO SAN JUAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870873755     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2346-9.9     Document Type: Article

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