Exceptional mobility of an advancing rhyolitic obsidian flow at Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tuffen, Hugh ^a   James, Mike R ^a   Castro, Jonathan M ^b   Schipper, C Ian ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; LAVA FLOW; MOBILITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; VISCOSITY; VOLCANOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHILE; FLOW KINETICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANO;

CHILE;

EID: 84887282974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3709     Document Type: Article

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