Advances in our understanding of pyroclastic current behavior from the 1980 eruption sequence of Mount St. Helens volcano (Washington), USA

BD Brand, N Pollock, JW Vallance, TE Ongaro… - Bulletin of …, 2023 - Springer
This review summarizes what the volcanology community has learned thus far from studying
the deposits of pyroclastic currents (PCs) from the 1980 eruption sequence at Mount St …

Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini

T Druitt, S Kutterolf, TA Ronge, C Hübscher… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Large explosive volcanic eruptions from island arcs pour pyroclastic currents into marine
basins, impacting ecosystems and generating tsunamis that threaten coastal communities …

Large-magnitude (VEI≥ 7)'wet'explosive silicic eruption preserved a Lower Miocene habitat at the Ipolytarnóc Fossil Site, North Hungary

D Karátson, T Biró, M Portnyagin, B Kiss… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
During Earth's history, geosphere-biosphere interactions were often determined by
momentary, catastrophic changes such as large explosive volcanic eruptions. The Miocene …

Reconstructing pyroclastic currents' source and flow parameters from deposit characteristics and numerical modeling: The Pozzolane Rosse ignimbrite case study …

L Calabrò, T Esposti Ongaro… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we apply a two‐dimensional, transient depth‐averaged model to simulate the
inertial flow dynamics of caldera‐forming pyroclastic currents, using the available data about …

Dynamics and Deposits of Pyroclastic Density Currents in Magmatic and Phreatomagmatic Eruptions Revealed by a Two‐Layer Depth‐Averaged Model

HA Shimizu, T Koyaguchi… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A pyroclastic density current (PDC) is characterized by its strong stratification of particle
concentration; it consists of upper dilute and lower dense currents, which generally control …

Deposit‐derived block‐and‐ash flows: the hazard posed by perched temporary tephra accumulations on volcanoes; 2018 Fuego Disaster, Guatemala

G Risica, M Rosi, M Pistolesi… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of hazardous pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) increases with runout distance,
which is strongly influenced by the mass flux. This article shows that the mass flux of a PDC …

Transport and deposition of the 39.8 ka Campanian Ignimbrite large-scale pyroclastic density currents (Italy)

A Silleni, G Giordano, MH Ort… - Geological Society of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Processes of transport and deposition of large-scale pyroclastic density currents, which
transport 102− 103 km3 of material, are still poorly understood. The volcanic explosivity …

Long-runout pyroclastic density currents: Analysis and implications

O Roche, CD Henry, N Azzaoui, A Guillin - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Pyroclastic density currents are hazardous, ground-hugging, hot mixtures of gas and solid
particles produced by volcanoes. Currents generated by the largest explosive eruptions …

Subaerial volcaniclastic deposits–influences of initiation mechanisms and transport behaviour on characteristics and distributions

JJ Major - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Subaerial volcaniclastic deposits are produced principally by volcanic debris avalanches,
pyroclastic density currents, lahars, and tephra falls. Those deposits have widely ranging …

The influence of gas pore pressure in dense granular flows: numerical simulations versus experiments and implications for pyroclastic density currents

A Aravena, L Chupin, T Dubois, O Roche - Bulletin of Volcanology, 2021 - Springer
We investigate the influence of gas pore pressure in granular flows through numerical
simulations on horizontal and low-angle inclined surfaces. We present a two-phase …