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Caldera-forming Currents

Caldera-Forming Currents is a type of pyroclastic density current distinguished by its exceptional volume, mobility, and sustained eruptive flux, capable of inducing magma chamber roof collapse and subsequent caldera formation through the generation of large-scale, ignimbrite-depositing flows.

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Calderas of the San Juan volcanic field, southwestern Colorado

Thomas A. Steven, Peter W. Lipman · USGS professional paper · 1975 · 230 citations · Full text

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Pyroclastic deposits as a guide for reconstructing the multi-stage evolution of the Somma-Vesuvius Caldera

Raffaello Cioni, Roberto Santacroce, Alessandro Sbrana · Bulletin of Volcanology · 1999 · 228 citations

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The Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): an overlapping collapse caldera generated by magma-chamber migration

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research · 2000 · 157 citations

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Late Quaternary caldera-forming eruptions in the eastern Aleutian arc, Alaska

Thomas P. Miller, Robert L. Smith · Geology · 1987 · 115 citations

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Large-volume silicic volcanism in Kamchatka: Ar–Ar and U–Pb ages, isotopic, and geochemical characteristics of major pre-Holocene caldera-forming eruptions

Ilya N. Bindeman, V. L. Leonov, Pavel Izbekov et al. · Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research · 2009 · 108 citations

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Authors

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  1. BK
    Ben Kennedy

    University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    3 publications · 156 citations

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  2. JS
    John Stix

    McGill University, Canada

    3 publications · 190 citations

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  3. GG
    Guido Giordano

    Roma Tre University, Italy

    2 publications · 38 citations

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  4. RC
    Raffaello Cioni

    Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

    2 publications · 250 citations

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  5. WM
    W.U. Mueller

    Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada

    2 publications · 141 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Geological Survey of Japan

    Tsukuba, Japan

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    136 citations

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

    Rome, Italy

    5 h-index

    15 publications

    433 citations

  3. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    363 citations

  4. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    274 citations

  5. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    119 citations

  6. Smithsonian Institution

    Washington, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    99 citations

  7. Alaska Volcano Observatory

    Fairbanks, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    116 citations

  8. Universidad de Buenos Aires

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    49 citations

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  1. Bulletin of Volcanology

    14 publications · 781 citations

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  2. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

    17 publications · 723 citations

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  3. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    4 publications · 133 citations

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  4. Sedimentary Geology

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  5. Geological Society of America Bulletin

    2 publications · 63 citations

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