Reconstructing the Plumbing Systems and Dynamics of Magmatic Processes Below Active Volcanoes
Recent technological advances have revolutionized volcano monitoring by improving our ability to measure changes of a volcanic system before, during, and after an eruption. However, it remains a challenge to relate the monitoring signals to the magmatic system and processes occurring at depth.
Hence, Fidel Costa’s research group uses micro and nano-analytical techniques, thermodynamics, and kinetic models to reconstruct the plumbing system and produce a time series of magmatic events leading to eruptions. Main targets are the EOS laboratory volcanoes of Mayon and Gede-Salak.
EOS Team:
Collaborators:
Tarsilo Girona (Postdoctoral Fellow Georgia Tech)
Claus-Dieter Ohl, (Division of Physics and Applied Physics, NTU)
Cesare Soci (Division of Physics and Applied Physics, NTU)
Publications:
- Correlation of magma evolution and geophysical monitoring at El Hierro (Canary Islands) 2011-2012 submarine eruption. Journal of Petrology. 54, 1349-1373. (2013).
- Storage conditions and eruptive dynamics of central versus flank eruptions in volcanic islands: The case of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 260, 62-79. (2013).
- Petrological insights into the storage conditions, and magmatic processes that yielded the centennial 2010 Merapi explosive eruption. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 261, 209-235. (2013).
- DIPRA:A user-friendly program to model multi-element diffusion in olivine with applications to timescales of magmatic processes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 14(2), 422-431. (2013).
- Compositionally zoned crystals and real-time degassing data reveal changes in magma transfer dynamics during the 2006 summit eruptive episodes of Mt. Etna. Bulletin of Volcanology. 75, 1-14. (2013).