Hazards of volcanic lakes: analysis of Lakes Quilotoa and Cuicocha, Ecuador
Volcanic lakes within calderas should be viewed as high-risk systems, and an intensive lake monitoring must be carried out to evaluate the hazard of potential limnic or phreatic-magmatic eruptions. In Ecuador, two caldera lakes – Lakes Quilotoa and Cuicocha, located in the high Andean...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2008-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Geosciences |
Online Access: | http://www.adv-geosci.net/14/29/2008/adgeo-14-29-2008.pdf |