Representivity of incompletely sampled fall deposits in estimating eruption source parameters: a test using the 12–13 January 2011 lava fountain deposit from Mt. Etna volcano, Italy

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Andronico, Daniele ^a   Scollo, Simona ^a   Cristaldi, Antonio ^a   Lo Castro, Maria Deborah ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Column height; Lava fountain; Mass eruption rate; Mt. Etna; Total erupted mass; Total grain size

Indexed keywords

CRATER; FALLOUT; GRAIN SIZE; LAVA; MANTLE PLUME; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84943014139     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-014-0861-3     Document Type: Article

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