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Geoscientists from the University of Texas Austin and Rice University discover that tiny bubbles tell tales about Earth s most significant volcanic eruptions.
This information was revealed in an open-access study published on the web in Nature Communications.
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Research Provides Answer to Long-standing Question
Researchers like James Gardner from the University of Texas along with Helge Gonnermann and Sahand Hajimirza from the Rice University were able to answer a deep-rooted question about highly explosive volcanic eruptions just like the one that occurred at Mount St. Helens in 1980, another at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, as well as the one at Mount Chaitén in Chile in 2008.
New research answers a longstanding question about explosive volcanic eruptions like the ones at Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo in 1991, or Chile’s Mount Chaitén in 2008.
Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth’s biggest volcanic eruptions. Now, geoscientists have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles.
Geoscientists have long sought to use tiny bubbles in erupted lava and ash to reconstruct some of the conditions, like heat and pressure, that occur in these powerful eruptions. But there’s been a historic disconnect between numerical models that predict how many bubbles will form and the actual amounts of bubbles measured in erupted rocks.
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Research finds tiny bubbles tell tales of big volcanic eruptions
Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth’s biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles.
In an open-access study published online in Nature Communications, Rice’s Sahand Hajimirza and Helge Gonnermann and UT Austin’s James Gardner answered a longstanding question about explosive volcanic eruptions like the ones at Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo in 1991 or Chile’s Mount Chaitén in 2008.
An aerial view from the southwest of Mount St. Helens, Washington, May 18, 1980. The Plinian eruption was the deadliest and most costly volcanic disaster in U.S. history. (Photo by Krimmel, Robert. Public domain.)
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Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth’s biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles.
Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth’s biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles.
In an open-access study published online in Nature Communications, Rice’s Sahand Hajimirza and Helge Gonnermann and UT Austin’s James Gardner answered a longstanding question about explosive volcanic eruptions like the ones at Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo in 1991 or Chile’s Mount Chaitén in 2008.