A pyroclastic flow deposit on Venus

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ASTER- and field-based observations at Bezymianny Volcano: Focus on the 11 May 2007 pyroclastic flow deposit

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Volcanology Remote sensing Bezymianny Pyroclastic flow deposits Thermal infrared Bezymianny (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia) is an active stratovolcano, characterized by a summit lava dome and overlapping pyroclastic flow (PF) deposits to the southeast. generated PFs that were dominated by juvenile material and were emplaced primarily due to column collapse. Followi...

A new type of pyroclastic deposit on the Moon containing Fe-spinel and chromite

[1] We present details of the identification of sites that show an absorption band at visible wavelengths and a strong 2 m band using the SELENE Spectral Profiler. All the sites exhibiting the visible feature are found on the regional dark mantle deposit (DMD) at Sinus Aestuum. All the instances of the visible feature show a strong 2 m band, suggestive of Feand Cr-rich spinels, which are differ...

Pyroclastic Flow Simulation by a Cellular Automata Model

We developed a minimal three-dimensional Cellular Automata (CA) model for pyroclastic flows, generated by collapsing volcanic columns. Our aim is to simulate numerically simple ideal situations and to test that main phenomenological conditions appear correctly in the simulations. Model applications could be very important in order to assess pyroclastic flow hazard in densely inhabited areas. CA...

Geochemistry of the extensive peralkaline pyroclastic flow deposit of NW Mexico, based on conventional and handheld X-ray fluorescence. Implications in a regional context

Chemical analyses conducted on the surface of rock slabs under a combination of two X-ray spectrometry methods, wavelength dispersive XRF and energy dispersive XRF, are used to establish a geochemical correlation between the studied samples. This proves to be an excellent method for the characterization of volcanic glasses, particularly when particles of exotic origin are present, because the e...