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Friday, March 18, 2022

Yale University - The oxidation of volcanoes—a magma opus

Title:
The oxidation of volcanoes - a magna opus
 
By:
Yale University, United States of America
 
Published:
Phys.org, 17 March 2022

From the article:
A new, Yale-led study unlocks the science behind a key ingredient—namely oxygen—in some of the world's most violent volcanoes.  
 
The research offers a new model for understanding the oxidation state of arc magmas, the lavas that form some volcanoes, such as the one that erupted dramatically in Tonga earlier this year.
 
ALSO SEE
 
Ague, J.J., Tassara, S., Holycross, M.E. et al. Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks. Nat. Geosci. (17 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00904-7