Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2022)

Havre 2012 pink pumice is evidence of a short-lived, deep-sea, magnetite nanolite-driven explosive eruption

  • Joseph Knafelc,
  • Scott E. Bryan,
  • Michael W. M. Jones,
  • David Gust,
  • Guil Mallmann,
  • Henrietta E. Cathey,
  • Andrew J. Berry,
  • Eric C. Ferré,
  • Daryl L. Howard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00355-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Pink and white raft pumice from the 2012 Havre deep-sea eruption experienced prolonged high-temperature atmospheric oxidation of magnetite to hematite which suggests a short but powerful explosive phase, according to microanalytical investigation.