Volcanology: Lessons learned from synthetic aperture radar imagery

V Pinel, MP Poland, A Hooper - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Twenty years of continuous Earth observation by satellite SAR have resulted in numerous
new insights into active volcanism, including a better understanding of subsurface magma …

Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth's deep mantle

EM Smith, SB Shirey, F Nestola, ES Bullock, J Wang… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The redox state of Earth's convecting mantle, masked by the lithospheric plates and basaltic
magmatism of plate tectonics, is a key unknown in the evolutionary history of our planet …

A new clinopyroxene-liquid barometer, and implications for magma storage pressures under Icelandic rift zones

DA Neave, KD Putirka - American Mineralogist, 2017 - degruyter.com
Pressure is one of the key variables that controls magmatic phase equilibria. However,
estimating magma storage pressures from erupted products can be challenging. Various …

Magma chambers: What we can, and cannot, learn from volcano geodesy

P Segall - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Geodetic observations on volcanoes can reveal important aspects of crustal magma
chambers. The rate of decay of deformation with distance reflects the centroid depth of the …

Inflation-predictable behavior and co-eruption deformation at Axial Seamount

SL Nooner, WW Chadwick Jr - Science, 2016 - science.org
Deformation of the ground surface at active volcanoes provides information about magma
movements at depth. Improved seafloor deformation measurements between 2011 and …

Magma injection into a long‐lived reservoir to explain geodetically measured uplift: Application to the 2007–2014 unrest episode at Laguna del Maule volcanic field …

H Le Mével, PM Gregg, KL Feigl - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Moving beyond the widely used kinematic models for the deformation sources, we present a
new dynamic model to describe the process of injecting magma into an existing magma …

Repressurization following eruption from a magma chamber with a viscoelastic aureole

P Segall - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
I analyze an approximate solution for spherical magma chambers (radius R1) surrounded by
Maxwell viscoelastic shells (radius R2) in elastic half‐spaces following a sudden decrease …

Linking surface deformation to thermal and mechanical magma chamber processes

M Townsend - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface deformation at active volcanoes reflects a wide variety of magmatic and crustal
processes, and the typical kinematic models employed to interpret these geodetic data are …

Unexpected large eruptions from buoyant magma bodies within viscoelastic crust

F Sigmundsson, V Pinel, R Grapenthin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Large volume effusive eruptions with relatively minor observed precursory signals are at
odds with widely used models to interpret volcano deformation. Here we propose a new …

The dynamics of large silicic systems from satellite remote sensing observations: The intriguing case of Domuyo volcano, Argentina

P Lundgren, T Girona, MG Bato, VJ Realmuto… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Silicic magmatic systems are the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth, capable of large and
catastrophic eruptions, yet their low eruptive frequency makes it challenging to interpret their …