Can nanolites enhance eruption explosivity?

F Cáceres, FB Wadsworth, B Scheu… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Degassing dynamics play a crucial role in controlling the explosivity of magma at erupting
volcanoes. Degassing of magmatic water typically involves bubble nucleation and growth …

Oxide nanolitisation-induced melt iron extraction causes viscosity jumps and enhanced explosivity in silicic magma

F Cáceres, KU Hess, M Eitel, M Döblinger… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Explosivity in erupting volcanoes is controlled by the degassing dynamics and the viscosity
of the ascending magma in the conduit. Magma crystallisation enhances both …

The magmatic evolution of South-East Crater (Mt. Etna) during the February–April 2021 sequence of lava fountains from a mineral chemistry perspective

A Musu, RA Corsaro, O Higgins, C Jorgenson… - Bulletin of …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The South-East Crater (SEC) at Mt. Etna started a period of lava fountaining in
December 2020, producing over 60 paroxysms until February 2022. The activity had an …

Out-of-sequence skeletal growth causing oscillatory zoning in arc olivines

P Salas, P Ruprecht, L Hernández, O Rabbia - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Primitive olivines from the monogenetic cones Los Hornitos, Central-South Andes, preserve
dendritic, skeletal, and polyhedral growth textures. Consecutive stages of textural maturation …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the degree of “nanotilization” of volcanic glasses: Understanding syn-eruptive processes recorded in melt inclusions

D Di Genova, A Caracciolo, S Kolzenburg - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Iron and water content substantially affect the physical properties of natural silicate melts
and may, therefore, influence magmatic and volcanic processes such as crystallization …

Eruption style and crystal size distributions: Crystallization of groundmass nanolites in the 2011 Shinmoedake eruption

M Mujin, M Nakamura, A Miyake - … : Journal of Earth and …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Crystallization of groundmass minerals may record the physicochemical conditions of
magmatic processes upon eruption and is thus a topic of interdisciplinary research in the …

Microstructural evolution of silicate immiscible liquids in ferrobasalts

VC Honour, MB Holness, JL Partridge… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2019 - Springer
An experimental study of the microstructural evolution of an immiscible basaltic emulsion
shows that the Fe-rich liquid forms homogeneously nucleated droplets dispersed in a …

Shallow magmatic processes revealed by cryptic microantecrysts: a case study from the Taupo Volcanic Zone

C Lormand, GF Zellmer, N Sakamoto, T Ubide… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2021 - Springer
Arc magmas typically contain phenocrysts with complex zoning and diverse growth histories.
Microlites highlight the same level of intracrystalline variations but require nanoscale …

[HTML][HTML] From melt to crystals: the effects of cooling on FeTi oxide nanolites crystallisation and melt polymerisation at oxidising conditions

F Cáceres, B Scheu, KU Hess, C Cimarelli, J Vasseur… - Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The state and properties of magma are crucial controls on the eruptive behaviour of volcanic
systems. Nowhere is the importance of the link between the state and properties more …

[HTML][HTML] Directed growth of a sector-zoned garnet in a pegmatoid from the Bohemian Massif, Austria

V Kohn, T Alifirova, N Daneu, TA Griffiths, E Libowitzky… - Lithos, 2024 - Elsevier
Almandine-spessartine garnet from the Moldanubian Zone in the Bohemian Massif (Austria)
records microstructural and compositional features of crystal growth imprinted during the …