Hazards of volcanic lakes: analysis of Lakes Quilotoa and Cuicocha, Ecuador
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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 region >3000 a.s.l. – have been the focus of these investigations. Both volcanoes are geologically young or his...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Geosciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1680-7359
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-14-29-2008