VMS Help FORTRAN, Data, Arrays  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  An array is a group of contiguous storage locations associated with
  a single symbolic name, the array name.  The individual storage
  locations, called array elements, are referred to by a subscript
  appended to the array name.  An array can have from 1 to 7
  dimensions.  The Fortran statements that establish arrays are:
  type declaration statements, the DIMENSION statement, and the
  COMMON statement.

  The data type of an array is specified in the same way as the data
  type of a variable; either implicitly by the first letter of the
  name or explicitly by a type declaration statement.

  Additional Information (explode) :

• Declarators
• Subscripts