Temporal and spatial evolution of a waxing then waning catastrophic density current revealed by chemical mapping

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-110

  Williams, Rebecca ^a,b   Branney, Michael J ^a   Barry, Tiffany L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

CHEMICAL MAPPING; CHEMICAL TRACERS; CURRENT DIRECTION; DENSITY CURRENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; PYROCLASTIC DENSITY CURRENTS; RUNOUT DISTANCES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL EVOLUTIONS;

DEPOSITS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; FLOW FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRACER;

EID: 84988693209     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34830.1     Document Type: Article

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