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Measuring Carbon-based Contaminant Mineralization Using Combined CO2 Flux and Radiocarbon Analyses
Published on: October 21, 2016
Diffuse CO2 degassing precursors of the January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines
Nemesio M Pérez1,2, Gladys V Melián3,4, Pedro A Hernández3,4
1Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN), 38320, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. nperez@iter.es.
Abstract:
On January 12, 2020, Taal volcano in Philippines erupted, 43 years after its previous eruption in 1977. This eruption was preceded by diffuse CO2 degassing precursory signals. Significant temporal variations in diffuse CO2 emission from Taal Main Crater Lake (TMLC) were observed across the ~ 12 years reaching high CO2 degassing rates in 2011 and 2017, with values typical of plume degassing volcanoes. In addition to these CO2 surveys at the TCML, soil CO2 efflux continuous monitoring was implemented at Taal volcano since 2016 and a clear increasing trend of the soil CO2 efflux in 2017 was observed. These geochemical observations are most simply explained by magma recharge to the system, and represent the earliest warning precursor signals to the January 2020 eruptive activity.
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