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The Soufriere Hills Eruption, Montserrat, British West Indies: Introduction to Special Section, Part 2
Author(s) -
Young S. R.,
Voight B.,
Sparks R. S. J.,
Rowley K.,
Robertson R. E. A.,
Lynch L. L.,
Aspinall W. P.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/98gl02437
Subject(s) - section (typography) , geology , pyroclastic rock , volcano , observatory , special section , seismology , west indies , volcanology , history , astronomy , engineering , computer science , engineering physics , physics , ethnology , operating system
The special section on the eruption of Soufriere Hills volcano is a collection of 24 papers that summarises the early scientific work of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory. Part 1 of the special section, published in a previous issue of GRL , provided a sampling of the multidisciplinary investigations undertaken at Montserrat. The papers published in Part 1 included an overview of the eruption, investigations on seismicity, ground deformation studies, and petrology. The papers of this issue comprise Part 2 of the special section. These papers also cover a broad spectrum of topics, including various topics in seismology, petrology, pyroclastic flow models, gas chemistry, hydrothermal systems, and tsunami models. In general, papers in Part 1 may be said to be more observational‐ or data‐orientated, and those of Part 2 more model‐orientated, but indeed there is much overlap of descriptive material, data, and modelling within the individual contributions. Considered in total the collection presents a representative summary of the scientific effort carried out in Montserrat through much of 1997.