Degassing during quiescence as a trigger of magma ascent and volcanic eruptions

• Main Authors: Girona, Társilo, Costa, Fidel, Schubert, Gerald
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Geophysics; Volcanology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81545; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39590
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Understanding the mechanisms that control the start-up of volcanic unrest is crucial to improve the forecasting of eruptions at active volcanoes. Among the most active volcanoes in the world are the so-called persistently degassing ones (e.g., Etna, Italy; Merapi, Indonesia), which emit massive amou...