IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v453y2008i7194d10.1038_nature06989.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma

Author

Listed:
  • Hugh Tuffen

    (Lancaster University
    University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK)

  • Rosanna Smith

    (University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK)

  • Peter R. Sammonds

    (University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK)

Abstract

Seismogenic magma: Breaking news Volcanoes typically undergo cycles of dome growth and collapse, and during dome growth many earthquakes occur within the volcano. The discovery of abundant brittle-to-ductile fault textures in silicic lavas, has led to the counterintuitive hypothesis that seismic events may be triggered by fracture and faulting within the erupting magma itself. Tuffen et al. now present experiments where they deform high-temperature silica-rich magmas under simulated volcanic conditions in order to test the hypothesis that high-temperature magma fracture is seismogenic. They find that acoustic emissions recorded during the experiments indicate that seismogenic rupture may occur in both crystal-rich and crystal-free silicic magmas at eruptive temperatures, extending the range of known conditions for seismogenic faulting.

Suggested Citation

  • Hugh Tuffen & Rosanna Smith & Peter R. Sammonds, 2008. "Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma," Nature, Nature, vol. 453(7194), pages 511-514, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:453:y:2008:i:7194:d:10.1038_nature06989
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06989
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06989
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature06989?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vallianatos, Filippos & Michas, George & Benson, Phil & Sammonds, Peter, 2013. "Natural time analysis of critical phenomena: The case of acoustic emissions in triaxially deformed Etna basalt," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 392(20), pages 5172-5178.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:453:y:2008:i:7194:d:10.1038_nature06989. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.