Enlazar la petrología y la sismología en un volcán activo

Kate Saunders1, Jon Blundy, Ralf Dohmen

  • 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Kate.Saunders@bristol.ac.uk

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 26, 2012
PubMed
Resumen

Las señales de disturbios volcánicos, como la sismicidad, pueden indicar el movimiento del magma. El estudio de los cristales de ortopiróxeno del Monte St. Helens revela que las intrusiones de magma se correlacionan con eventos sísmicos, mejorando la predicción de erupciones.

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