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Voluminous eruption from a zoned magma body after an increase in supply rate at Axial Seamount
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2016
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Source: Geophysical Research Letters, 43(23), 12063-12070.
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Journal Title:Geophysical Research Letters
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Description:Axial Seamount is the best monitored submarine volcano in the world, providing an exceptional window into the dynamic interactions between magma storage, transport, and eruption processes in a mid-ocean ridge setting. An eruption in April 2015 produced the largest volume of erupted lava since monitoring and mapping began in the mid-1980s after the shortest repose time, due to a recent increase in magma supply. The higher rate of magma replenishment since 2011 resulted in the eruption of the most mafic lava in the last 500-600years. Eruptive fissures at the volcano summit produced pyroclastic ash that was deposited over an area of at least 8km(2). A systematic spatial distribution of compositions is consistent with a single dike tapping different parts of a thermally and chemically zoned magma reservoir that can be directly related to previous multichannel seismic-imaging results.
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Source:Geophysical Research Letters, 43(23), 12063-12070.
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