The May-July 2003 eruption at Piton de la Fournaise (La Reunion): Volume, effusion rates, and emplacement mechanisms inferred from thermal imaging and Global Positioning System (GPS) survey

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 396, Issue , 2005, Pages 103-124

  Coppola, D ^a   Staudacher, Th ^b   Cigolini, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Effusion rates; Emplacement mechanism; Temperature distribution; Thermal profiles

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INFRARED IMAGING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; EFFUSION RATES; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; SATELLITE INFRARED IMAGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; THERMAL PROFILES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA ACQUISITION; EMPLACEMENT; GPS; LAVA FLOW; OPTICAL METHOD; SURVEYING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; REUNION;

EID: 84874959180     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2396-5.103     Document Type: Article

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