Long-term and high temporal resolution gravity and deformation data move us toward a better understanding of the behavior of Mt Etna during the June 1995 - December 2011 period in which the volcano exhibited magma charging phases, flank eruptions and summit crater activity. Monthly repeated gravity measurements were coupled with deformation time series using the Differential Synthetic Aperture ...

Silicic calderas form during explosive volcanic eruptions when magma withdrawal triggers collapse along bounding faults. The nature of specific interactions between magmatism and tectonism in caldera-forming systems is, however, unclear. Regional stress patterns may control the location and geometry of magma reservoirs, which in turn may control the spatial and temporal development of faults. H...

Introduction Volcanism on Venus has produced a rich array of volcanic landforms [1], which in turn suggests a broad range of magma production and differentiation environments. In the next decade, it is possible that one or more landers associated with New Frontiers or Flagship class missions to Venus will provide new geochemical observations of the Venus surface. The goal of this work is to mak...

8th Central European Conference on Cryptography 2008 1 Table 1. Experimental Results: Magma, Singular, and Mini-SAT. Num Vars Num Eqns β or Sparsity Magma Singular SAT 2 2 1.0 0.02 sec 0.01 sec 0.01 sec 3 3 1.0 0.04 sec 0.04 sec 0.07 sec 4 4 1.0 0.43 sec 423.48 sec 213.56 sec 5 5 1.0 4.32 sec > 75 mins 19278.9 sec 6 6 1.0 42.78 sec no trial > 75 mins 7 7 1.

We welcome the opportunity to clarify issues raised by Gualda & Ghiorso (G&G, hereafter) on our 2010 paper, ‘A metamodel for crustal magmatism: phase equilibria of giant ignimbrites’. Voluminous (V 100^1000 km) explosive eruption of silicic magma, accompanied by eruption columns that may empty into the stratosphere, has environmental consequences of planetary significance and represents an impo...

Magma is transported in brittle rock through dikes and sills. This movement may be accompanied by the release of seismic energy that can be tracked from the Earth’s surface. Locating dikes and deciphering their dynamics is therefore of prime importance in understanding and potentially forecasting volcanic eruptions. The Seismic Amplitude Ratio Analysis (SARA) method aims to track melt propagati...

a r t i c l e i n f o We present a new criterion for primary fragmentation of natural rock samples in shock-tube experiments, and new formulae for the effective strength of natural rock samples, for the size of primary fragments, and for fragmentation velocities. These formulae and the fragmentation criterion are given in terms of the physical properties of the rock and in terms of experimental...

[ 1] Volcan Ecuador, a young, active shield volcano at the northwest tip of Isabela Island, Galá pagos, experienced at least one sector collapse event that removed its western half. The compositions of lavas exposed in the old caldera wall and fault scarps dissecting the outer shield together with young postcollapse lavas provide insights into the history of this volcano. Ar/ Ar and cosmogenic ...

New and previously published micro-gravity data are combined with InSAR data, precise levelling and GPS measurements to produce a model for the processes operating at Krafla volcano, 20 years after its most recent eruption. The data have been divided into two periods: from 1990 to 1995 and from 1996 to 2003 and show that the rate of deflation at Krafla is decaying exponentially. The net micro-g...

Crystallization coupled with gravity removal of depleted interstitial melt has long been recognized as a mechanism of magma differentiation. Similarly, heat released by synplutonic basaltic magma intrusions has long been recognized as capable of driving convection in granite chambers. Direct evidence of these processes has seldom been described in granites. In the Tavares pluton, we mapped a nu...