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From Magma to Tephra by Armin Freundt & Mauro Rosi
Modelling Physical Processes of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
A summary of insights into key aspects of explosive volcanic eruptions, arranged into chapters in order of the processes involved, from the hot magma releasing gases as it rises through the Earth's crust to the final deposition of materials upon the Earth's surface.Hot magma rising through the Earth's crust releases gases that expand and may come into contact with external water that vaporizes. The magma is then fragmented into an accelerating gas-particle/droplet mixture that is shot into the atmosphere, possibly in an overpressured state, where it may buoyantly rise up into the stratosphere as an ash plume, partially through totally collapse back to the surface, or rapidly expand sideways,or perform a combination to these processes. Tephra is then deposited on the Earth's surface by pyroclastic fall, flow or surge, or some hybrid mechanism. The combination of processes that operate from the degassing of magma to the emplacement of tephra makes an explosive volcanic eruption, and the physical characterization of these processes is the scope of this book. This text reviews basic physics and summarizes recent physical modelling advances of processes operating during explosive volcanic eruptions. The book addresses topics such as: magma degassing; magmatic and phreatomagmatic fragmentation; flow in the conduit; eruption column dynamics; transport and emplacement processes of pyroclastic fall, flow and surge. |
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| ISBN-10 : 0444829598 | ISBN-13 : 9780444829597 |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Developments in Volcanology S.
Country Publication : Netherlands
Publication Date : 01/11/1998
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page Length : 334mm
Page Size : 230mm