Petrochronologic perspective on rhyolite volcano unrest at Laguna del Maule, Chile

• Main Authors: Andersen, Nathan L., Singer, Brad S., Costa, Fidel, Fournelle, John, Herrin, Jason Scott, Fabbro, Gareth Nicholas
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes; Rhyolite; Andes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88882; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44789
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Rhyolitic magmas have rarely erupted during historical times, thus we have a poor record of the signals of unrest that precede them. The Laguna del Maule volcanic field (LdM), Chile, is in the midst of a decade-long episode of unrest including surface inflation at more than 200 mm/yr. Geomorphic obs...