SUMMARY Seismic attenuation measurements, especially those obtained from coda decay analysis, are becoming a key data source for the characterization of heterogeneous Earth due to their sensitivity small-scale heterogeneities. However, relation between scattering measured waves and physical rock properties is still unclear. The goal this study identify main petrophysical mineralogical factors c...

Introduction: Water-magma, or ice-magma, interactions have long been theorized as an important process in the Martian geologic record [1-3]. The ability to unambiguously recognize tephra deposits and volcanic edifices produced by H 2 O-magma interactions is important for understanding the geologic history of Mars and for understanding the genesis of the major components of the Martian surface l...

A unique lunar property The moon has a unique property compared to the terrestrial and gas giant planets of our solar system. This property consists of the ability to record and preserve evidence of both external and internal events and processes over a time span that includes most of solar system history. Every exposed surface of the moon accumulates implanted solar wind atoms, is modified by ...

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are a continuum of voluminous iron and magnesium rich rock emplacements which include continental flood basalts and associated intrusive rocks, volcanic passive margins, oceanic plateaus, submarine ridges, seamount groups, and ocean basin flood basalts. Such provinces do not originate at "normal" seafloor spreading centers. We compile all known in situ LIPs younge...

Mt. Pinatubo is one of several recent-age volcanoes along the west Luzon volcanic arc. A fumarole near the suminit emits gases with magmatic characteristics. Several thermal springs on the east and west flanks yield various fluid typos, including neutral chloride and bicarbonate. Three wellbores probed the Mt. Pinatubo caldera from elevations of +1230 through -1600 mRSL. Trajectories may be des...

When a volcano erupts, the geological process that results often releases devastating amounts of energy from beneath the planet’s surface through volcanic flows. such flows are classified into two categories: well-known lava flows when the eruption is effusive, and pyroclastic flows when it is explosive. Explosive eruptions, like the ancient events at Mount Vesuvius in Italy and the modern ones...