Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Shallow magma diversions during explosive diatreme-forming eruptions

  • Nicolas Le Corvec,
  • James D. Muirhead,
  • James D. L. White

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03865-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Shallow magmatic feeder systems in monogenetic volcanic fields may determine how a volcano erupts. Here, the authors use numerical modeling to show that explosive excavation and infilling of eruptive craters affects local stress states, with feedbacks controlling sites and depths of crater-forming explosions.