Endogenous magma degassing and storage at Mount Etna

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Sep 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997georl..24.2219a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 24, Issue 17, p. 2219-2222

Physics

48

Volcanology: Eruption Mechanisms, Volcanology: Magma Migration, Volcanology: Physics And Chemistry Of Magma Bodies, Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Volcanism

Scientific paper

Combining SO2 plume emissions from Mt. Etna in 1975-1995 with the magma S content suggests that between 3.5 and 5.9km3 of basalt were degassed for sulfur over two decades, only 10-20% of which actually extruded. Except during extensive lava outbreak (1992), the SO2 flux was mostly supplied by endogenous degassing of non-erupted basalt, replaced at a time-averaged rate of 4.5-8m3/s. The unerupted degassed magma cannot be accommodated by the upper plumbing system (whose maximum capacity is estimated at 0.6km3), nor by simple intrusive growth of the volcanic pile. Being denser than undegassed melt, most of it was probably removed by gravitational convection in subvolcanic feeders. Ultimately, part of this degassed magma may solidify within the crust, contributing to the accretion of a wide `plutonic' complex, >=3 times larger than the volcano itself, that has grown within its sedimentary basement.

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