On the fate of pumice rafts formed during the 2012 Havre submarine eruption

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jutzeler, Martin ^a,b   Marsh, Robert ^c   Carey, Rebecca J ^d   White, James D L ^b   Talling, Peter J ^a   Karlstrom, Leif ^e  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMICE;

DEEP SEA; GEOACCUMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PUMICE; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

2012 HAVRE SUBMARINE ERUPTION; ADVECTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; EL NINO; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PREDICTION; PUMICE RAFT; SAILOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANO; WATERLOGGING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 84899101202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4660     Document Type: Article

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