Nature Communications (May 2022)

Inflated pyroclasts in proximal fallout deposits reveal abrupt transitions in eruption behaviour

  • Thomas J. Jones,
  • Yannick Le Moigne,
  • James K. Russell,
  • Glyn Williams-Jones,
  • Daniele Giordano,
  • Donald B. Dingwell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30501-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Jones et al. identify a new type of volcanic deposit, inflated pyroclasts, that form by continued gas expansion post-deposition. They show how these deposits can be indicative of abrupt transitions in eruptive behaviour at mafic volcanoes.