The Soufriere Hills eruption, Montserrat, British West Indies: Introduction to special section, part 1

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Abstract

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.

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Aspinall, W.P., Lynch, L., Robertson, R., Rowley, K., Sparks, R.S., Voight, B., and Young, S., 1998, The Soufriere Hills eruption, Montserrat, British West Indies: Introduction to special section, part 1: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 25, no. 18, p. 3651-3651, https://doi.org/10.1029/98GL02437.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title The Soufriere Hills eruption, Montserrat, British West Indies: Introduction to special section, part 1
Series title Geophysical Research Letters
DOI 10.1029/98GL02437
Volume 25
Issue 18
Year Published 1998
Language English
Publisher American Geophysical Union
Description 1 p.
First page 3651
Last page 3651
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