Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2022)

Basaltic Plinian eruptions at Las Sierras-Masaya volcano driven by cool storage of crystal-rich magmas

  • Emily C. Bamber,
  • Giuseppe La Spina,
  • Fabio Arzilli,
  • Mattia de’ Michieli Vitturi,
  • Margherita Polacci,
  • Margaret E. Hartley,
  • Maurizio Petrelli,
  • Jonathan Fellowes,
  • Mike Burton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00585-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Large explosive eruptions of basaltic magma are promoted by low pre-eruptive temperatures in crystallising shallow magma reservoirs, according to an integrated petrological, geochemical and numerical modelling study.