Near-surface magma flow instability drives cyclic lava fountaining at Fagradalsfjall, Iceland

S Scott, M Pfeffer, C Oppenheimer, E Bali… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lava fountains are a common manifestation of basaltic volcanism. While magma degassing
plays a clear key role in their generation, the controls on their duration and intermittency are …

Magma plumbing architectures and timescales of magmatic processes during historical magmatism on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

A Caracciolo, E Bali, SA Halldórsson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past 4000 years, three rifting episodes have occurred on the Reykjanes Peninsula
(RP, SW Iceland) at time intervals of about 800-1000 years, with the activation of four of the …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite derived SO2 emissions from the relatively low-intensity, effusive 2021 eruption of Fagradalsfjall, Iceland

B Esse, M Burton, C Hayer, MA Pfeffer, S Barsotti… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
In March 2021 an effusive eruption began at the Fagradalsfjall volcanic system in Iceland,
ending nearly 800 years of dormancy on the Reykjanes peninsula. The eruption produced …

Recent advances in characterizing the crustal stress field and future applications of stress data: Perspectives from North America

JE Lundstern - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The stress field controls patterns of crustal deformation, including which faults are likeliest to
cause earthquakes or transmit fluids. Since the 1950s, maps of maximum horizontal stress …

Simultaneous rift-scale inflation of a deep crustal sill network in Afar, East Africa

A La Rosa, C Pagli, H Wang, F Sigmundsson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Decades of studies at divergent plate margins have revealed networks of magmatic sills at
the crust-mantle boundary. However, a lack of direct observations of deep magma motion …

Tremor clustering reveals pre-eruptive signals and evolution of the 2021 Geldingadalir eruption of the Fagradalsfjall Fires, Iceland

Z Zali, SM Mousavi, M Ohrnberger, EPS Eibl… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Analyzing seismic data in a timely manner is essential for potential eruption forecasting and
early warning in volcanology. Here, we demonstrate that unsupervised machine learning …

Large-scale demonstration of machine learning for the detection of volcanic deformation in Sentinel-1 satellite imagery

J Biggs, N Anantrasirichai, F Albino, M Lazecky… - Bulletin of …, 2022 - Springer
Radar (SAR) satellites systematically acquire imagery that can be used for volcano
monitoring, characterising magmatic systems and potentially forecasting eruptions on a …

Repeated seismic swarms near Paricutin volcano: precursors to the birth of a new monogenetic volcano in the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, México?

D Legrand, M Perton, JL Macías, C Siebe… - Bulletin of …, 2023 - Springer
The birth of a new monogenetic volcano is difficult to forecast with precision, both in space
and time. Nevertheless, seismic activity can alert of the imminence of such an eruption …

Fracturing and tectonic stress drive ultrarapid magma flow into dikes

F Sigmundsson, M Parks, H Geirsson, A Hooper… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Many examples of exposed giant dike swarms can be found where lateral magma flow has
exceeded hundreds of kilometers. We show that massive magma flow into dikes can be …

The Energetic 2022 Seismic Unrest Related to Magma Intrusion at the North Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

S Cesca, M Metz, P Büyükakpınar… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A seismic swarm affected the 53.3°–54.3° Latitude North section of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge
from 26 September to 10 December 2022. We rely on regional, teleseismic and array data to …