Morphology and structure of the 1999 lava flows at Mount Cameroon Volcano (West Africa) and their bearing on the emplacement dynamics of volume-limited flows

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-34

  Suh, C E ^a   Stansfield, S A ^b   Sparks, R S J ^b   Njome, M S ^a   Wantim, M N ^a,c   Ernst, G G J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

lava flows; morphology; Mount Cameroon volcano

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EMBANKMENTS; LEVEES; VOLCANOES;

CHANNEL INTERACTIONS; CHANNEL INTERFACE; DISTAL REGIONS; FLOW CHANNELS; LAVA FLOWS; MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURES; MOUNT CAMEROON; PRESSURE RIDGE;

MORPHOLOGY;

EMPLACEMENT; LAVA FLOW; LEVEE; PAHOEHOE; VOLCANOLOGY;

CAMEROON; CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; MOUNT CAMEROON; SICILY; SUD OUEST PROVINCE;

EID: 84879206819     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000312     Document Type: Article

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